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Frank Honywill George (2 May 1921 – 10 September 1997) was a British psychologist, cyberneticist and former Professor of Cybernetics and Director of the Institute of Cybernetics at the Brunel University, best known for his 1962 book The Brain as a Computer.
These included GEORGE 1, GEORGE 2, GEORGE 3, and GEORGE 4. Initially, the 1900 series machines, like the Ferranti-Packard 6000 on which they were based, ran a simple operating system known as Executive , which allowed the system operator to load and run programs from a Teletype Model 33 ASR based system console .
George H. Mealy (December 31, 1927 – June 21, 2010 in Scituate, Massachusetts) [1] was an American mathematician and computer scientist who invented the namesake ...
George H. Miley (born 1933) is a professor emeritus of physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Miley is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Nuclear Society , the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers .
George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard.Upon its release, the book received mixed reviews, and was followed by five sequels, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt in 2009, George and the Big Bang in 2011, George and the Unbreakable Code in 2014 and George and the Blue Moon in 2016 and George and the Ship of Time [] in 2018.
The Z4 was arguably the world's first commercial digital computer, and is the oldest surviving programmable computer. [1]: 1028 It was designed, and manufactured by early computer scientist Konrad Zuse's company Zuse Apparatebau, for an order placed by Henschel & Son, in 1942; though only partially assembled in Berlin, then completed in Göttingen in the Third Reich in April 1945, [2] but not ...
George W. McLaurin (September 16, 1894 – September 4, 1968) was an American professor, the first African American to attend the University of Oklahoma. He was the successful plaintiff in an important civil rights case against the university, McLaurin v.
George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of ...