ALAN TURING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

Secret wartime projects in codebreaking radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kickstarted the development of digital computers Alan Turing took an early lead on the theory side along with fellow mathematicians on both sides of the Atlantic This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the postwar period By 1955 the computers produced by companies such as Ferranti English Electric Elliott Brothers and the British Tabulating Machine Co had begun to appear in the marketplace The Information Age was dawning Before the market passed to the Americans for a brief period Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage Their influence is still discernible deep down within todays hardware and software