Trevor Pearcey
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Trevor Pearcey (5 March 1919 – 27 January 1998) was a British-born Australian scientist, who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world.
Born in
In a 1948 paper, published in the Australian Journal of Science, he envisaged using a digital electronic computer for providing information over a national telecommunications network:
It is not inconceivable that an automatic encyclopedic service operated through the national teleprinter or telephone system, will one day exist.[1]
He bet that he could make an electronic device that would be 1000 times faster than the best electronic device of the time. One of his calculators filled a small room, weighing 7 tons.
He was awarded a
In his later years he lived on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne.
The
See also
Notes
- ^ "Computer tour spins web of interest". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 May 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ "Home". pearcey.org.au.
References
- Pearcey, Trevor Pearcey (1949). "Modern Trends in Machine Computation". Supplement to the Australian Journal of Science. X (4): i–xx.
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