Andrew Donald Booth
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Andrew Donald Booth (11 February 1918 – 29 November 2009)
Early life
Andrew Donald Booth was born on February 11, 1918, in East Molesy, Surrey, UK.[4] He was the son of Sidney Booth (died 1955) and a cousin of Sir Felix Booth.
He was raised in
Career
From 1943 to 1945, Booth worked as a mathematical physicist in the X-ray team at the
After World War II, he worked on crystallographic problems research at Birkbeck College and constructed a fourier synthesis device. He was then introduced to the work of Alan Turing and John von Neumann on logical automata by Douglas Hartree.[4]
Dr. Booth served as
Personal life
Booth married mathematician and computer engineer Kathleen Britten in 1950, and had two children, Amanda and Ian;[10] between 1947 and 1953, together they produced three computing machines.
See also
Bibliography
- School of computer science and information systems: A short history (PDF), 50 years of Computing, UK: Birkbeck School of Computing, 2008
- Coding system for the APE(X)C, AU: Murdoch, archived from the original on 7 June 2011, retrieved 2 November 2018.
- Booth, A.D. and Britten, K.H.V. (1947) Coding for A.R.C., Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- Booth, A.D. and Britten, K.H.V. (1947) General considerations in the design of an all-purpose electronic digital computer, Institute for Advance Study, Princeton
- Booth, A.D. and Britten, K.H.V. (1948) The accuracy of atomic co-ordinates derived from Fourier series in X-ray crystallography Part V, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vol A 193 pp305–310
- The Electronic Principles of Digital Computers, Electronics Forum (1948);
- Booth, Andrew D; Britten, Kathleen HV (September 1947), "Principles and Progress in the Construction of High-Speed Digital Computers", Quart. Journ. Mech. And Applied Math., 2 (2): 182–197, .
- Booth, A.D (1949) A Magnetic Digital Storage System, Electronic Engineering
- Booth, A.D. (1950) The Physical Realization of An Electronic Digital Computer, Electronic Engineering
- Booth, A.D. (1952) On Optimum Relations Between Circuit Elements and Logical Symbols in the Design of Electronic Calculators, Journal of British Institution of Radio Engineers
- Booth, A.D. and Booth K.H.V. (1953) Automatic Digital Calculators, Butterworth-Heinmann (Academic Press) London
References
- ^ ISBN 1-884964-47-8.
Born February 11 1918, East Molesy, Surrey, UK; early computer developer at the University of London who worked with John von Neumann; with Warren Weaver in 1946, first conceived of machine translations, and manufactured magnetic drum memories for many early computers.
- ^ a b c Andrew Booth: scientist who invented the magnetic storage device, The Times, 12 January 2010.
- ISSN 0958-7403. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
- ^ a b "Andrew Donald Booth". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- Birkbeck College, London, UK.
- ^ Collin, Andrew. Andrew Booth's Computers at Birkbeck College. Resurrection, Issue 5, Spring 1993. London: Computer Conservation Society.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 May 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Computer Science at Birkbeck College - ^ "Obituary: Professor Andrew Booth". Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ISBN 9780262140744.
- ^ "Pioneer of the hard drive". Susan Lazaruk. 3 January 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2021 – via PressReader.
Booth and his wife raised two children, Amanda, a veterinarian, and Ian, a physicist.
External links
- The APEXC driver page
- Principles and Progress in the Construction of High-Speed Digital Computers
- Andrew Booth Collection, University of Manchester Library.
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