Английская Википедия:Andrew Donald Booth
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Andrew Donald Booth (11 February 1918 – 29 November 2009)[1][2] was a British electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist, who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers.[3] He is known for Booth's multiplication algorithm.[1] In his later career in Canada he became president of Lakehead University.
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 Weybridge, Surrey, and educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. In 1937, he won a scholarship to read mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge. Booth left Cambridge without taking a degree, having become disaffected with pure mathematics as a subject. He chose an external degree from the University of London instead, which he obtained with a first.[1]
Career
From 1943 to 1945, Booth worked as a mathematical physicist in the X-ray team at the British Rubber Producers' Research Association (BRPRA), Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, gaining his PhD in crystallography from the University of Birmingham in 1944. In 1945, he moved to Birkbeck College, University of London, where his work in the crystallography group led him to build some of the first electronic computers in the United Kingdom[5][6] including the All Purpose Electronic Computer, first installed at the British Rayon Research Association.[7] Booth founded Birkbeck's department of numerical automation and was named a fellow at the university in 2004.[8] He also did early pioneering work in machine translation.[9]
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 President of Lakehead University from 1972 to 1978.
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
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- 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);
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- 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
External links
- The APEXC driver page
- Principles and Progress in the Construction of High-Speed Digital Computers
- Andrew Booth Collection, University of Manchester Library.
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Andrew Booth: scientist who invented the magnetic storage device, The Times, 12 January 2010.
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- ↑ The work of Professor Andrew D. Booth Шаблон:Webarchive, Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, London, UK.
- ↑ Collin, Andrew. Andrew Booth's Computers at Birkbeck College. Resurrection, Issue 5, Spring 1993. London: Computer Conservation Society.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web Computer Science at Birkbeck College
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