INDEX | 541
267, 298, 317–18, 320, 323, 329–32,
339, 343, 346, 474
Milbanke, Anabella, Lady Byron 258
Military Intelligence, see MI5; MI6
Miller, Glenn 237
Miller, Ron 35–6
Milner-Barry, Stuart 112
Milton Keynes Council 191
mind 277ff
Ministry of Supply Automatic Integrator
and Computer, see MOSAIC
Ministry of Supply, see UK Government
Minsky, Marvin 294, 471
MIT, see Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
model of computation 405, 408, 409
Model, Walter 169
Molecular biology 29
Monopoly board game 469
Montezuma 360
Montgomery, Bernard 169
Montgomery, Hugh 404
Moore, E. H. 438
Moore, G. E. 352
Morcom, Christopher 5, 19, 21, 352–3,
467–8, 470
death 14, 355–6
morphogen 363, 366, 368, 371, 374, 378
morphogenesis 13, 29, 32, 40, 47,
359, 361–2, 369–70, 373ff, 383ff,
464, see also The chemical basis of
morphogenesis
equation 40, 383, 387
Morse code 145
Morton, J. B. (‘Beachcomber’) 135
MOSAIC 220
Mountbatten, Louis 417
Movellan, Javier 321, 323
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 339
Muhly, Nico 470
Mumma, Robert 184
Munday, Brian 215, 219
Murray, Arnold 13, 32, 36
music, see computer music; Turing, Alan
musical notes 12, 233–9, 245–6
Mussolini, Benito 104
Myers, Frederic W. H. 347
Myers, Ken 158, 166
N
nanocomputer 447
National Archives, see The National
Archives
National Cash Register Corporation 9, 184
National Engineering Laboratory 219
National Museum of Computing 181, 191
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) 10, 11,
25, 32, 68–9, 74, 159, 202, 206, 213ff,
224–5, 230, 261, 265, 267, 304, 311,
320, 341, 365, 449, 464, 467, 469, 474
Mathematics Division 224–5
National Research Development
Corporation, see UK Government
natural number 61–2, 435
Nature journal 29, 199, 208, 351, 356,
369, 467
Naval Enigma Section, see Bletchley Park
Nazi 3, 33, 167, 187, 341, 371, 440, 474
NCR Corporation, see National Cash
Register Corporation
Nelson, George 219
Németi, István 459–61
Neumann, Bernhard 397
Neumann, Herman & Sarah 440
neural network 44, 297–8, 311–4, 317, 362
illustration 310
neuron 12, 267, 278, 280, 309ff, 317, 340,
376, 445, 453, see also artificial neuron
diagram 311
New Scientist magazine 179
New South Wales Institute of
Technology 220
New York 183, 344, see also Bell Labs;
Media Impact Awards
auction 471
chess 327, 329
gay community 185
Newcastle University 67, 179–81
Computing Laboratory 179
Newcomen Society 262
Newell, Allen 12, 288
Newman, Max 7, 9, 12, 25, 26, 32, 36,
49–51, 54, 70, 75, 139, 153, 154–7,
159, 164, 177, 180, 200, 202–8, 227,
237, 255, 303–4, 332, 437ff, 469, 471
lecture course at Cambridge 439–40
logic 437–9
photograph 154, 439
Vienna University 440–4
Newman, William 157, 469
Newmanry 156–7, 172–3, 192, 196, 200,
203–4
Newnham College, Cambridge 348
Newton, Isaac 49–50, 470
No. 1 Piccadilly (London) 174
Nobel Prize 17, 348, 451
non-deterministic physical system 452,
see also deterministic physical system
diagram 406, 407
normal distribution 392–3
normal number 427–32
Normandy 83, 168–70
North Africa 9, 81, 169North Wales 469
Noskwith, Max 192
Novikov, Pyotr Sergeyevich 396
NPL, see National Physical Laboratory
number theory, see mathematics
numerical analysis 11, 225, 391–2O
Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and
Logical Engine, see ORACLE
computer
Object-Oriented Turing programming
language 473
Oettinger, Anthony 298, 317
Official Secrets Act 114, 163, 166, 230
Offizier system 94
Ogilvie-Forbes, Christine 138, 140,
422, 425
Ohio 184, see also Dayton, Ohio
Old Robinson machine, see Heath
Robinson machine
Old Trafford, see Manchester
Olympic Games 28
1948 London Olympics 11
On computable numbers 7, 54, 71, 153,
202, 213, 224, 226–7, 253, 255,
408, 439, 449, 463, 464, see also
Enscheidungsproblem
Open University, see Alan Turing Building
Operation Sea Lion 81
ORACLE computer 200
oracle 472
Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic
Computer, see O R D VA C
ORDVAC 200
Oxford 137
Oxford Brookes University, see Turing
Building
Oxford University 32, 170, 233, 403,
429, 442
Department of Criminology 27
Programming Research Group 236
Oxford University Press 135
Oyster key 94P
P = NP 468
Pacific Ocean 384
Packard-Bell 250 computer 220
PAGES Gazette 113
Palfreman, Jon 464
Palladino, Eusepia 354–5
Pamatmat, Rey 467
Panzer divisions 81, 169
Papadimitriou, Christos 468