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Doron Swade's Degrees

PhD History University of Cape Town
Masters History University of Cape Town
Bachelors History University of Cape Town

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Why Is Doron Swade Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Doron Swade MBE, born 1944, is a museum curator and author, specialising in the history of computing. He is especially known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine.

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Doron Swade's Published Works

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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer (2001) (61)
The Cogwheel Brain : Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer (2001) (44)
Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines (1991) (37)
The dream machine - Exploring the computer age: by Jon Palfreman & Doron Swade, 1991 (BBC Books - Hard Cover), 208 pp, £16.95, ISBN 0-563-36221-9 (1992) (21)
The construction of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 (2005) (21)
REDEEMING CHARLES BABBAGE'S MECHANICAL COMPUTER (1993) (21)
Collecting Software: Preserving Information in an Object-Centred Culture (2000) (12)
The ‘unerring certainty of mechanical agency’: machines and table making in the nineteenth century (2003) (10)
A. W. H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective: The Phillips Machine and the history of computing (2000) (8)
Historical Reconstructions (2005) (7)
Virtual objects: the endof the real? (2003) (7)
Pre-electronic Computing (2011) (6)
Calculation and Tabulation in the Nineteenth Century (2003) (5)
Codebreaker: Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy: 21 June 2012–21 October 2013, Science Museum, London (2013) (4)
Inventing the User: EDSAC in Context (2011) (4)
Origins of Digital Computing: Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, and Ada Lovelace (2012) (4)
Mathematics and Mechanical Computation (2018) (4)
Forgotten Machines: The Need for a New Master Narrative (2019) (2)
Charles Babbage's engines: the genius of failure (1991) (2)
Matthew L. Jones. Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage. (2018) (1)
Reconstructions as experimental history: historic computing machines (2011) (1)
'It will not slice a pineapple'-Charles Babbage and the first computer (1991) (1)
Turing, Lovelace, and Babbage (2017) (1)
‘Photographing the Footsteps of Time’: Space and Time in Charles Babbage’s Calculating Engines (2017) (1)
Computers and Antiquity (1990) (1)
George Biddell Airy, Greenwich and the Utility of Calculating Engines (2019) (0)
Data Quality Verification at STScI - Automated Assessment and Your Data (1996) (0)
The World Reduced to Number (1991) (0)
The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development. Ernst Martin , Peggy Aldrich Kidwell , Michael R. Williams (1994) (0)
Preserving the Legacy of IT Innovation (2020) (0)
Le calculateur mécanique de Charles Babbage (1993) (0)
The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction (2022) (0)

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