Heavy mettle fan club

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Historian's often seek to refute the reputations of the famous despite their celebrity amongst the ordinary people. Their characters are analysed and criticised. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who led the British Antarctic Expedition, in 1911-1912, became a hero to the people of Edwardian Britain. His reputation was created by the interest and admiration of the public and not by the media or the government. Some historians have suggested the establishment praised Scott to divert attention from his failure. They cite the suppression of some of his journals, which show him in a unheroic light.

Methods, Historians, Criticism and interpretation, Historical methods, Scott, Robert Falcon

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Heavy metal for the data age

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Former University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory Director Maurice Wilkes met with some of his past colleagues to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). The group, led by Wilkes, first made the EDSAC work on May 6, 1949. It had 3,500 valves and 32 tanks which could hold the equivalent of 16 10-decimal numbers. The laboratory developed its computing services which were taken up by a variety of students. The team went on to develop the EDSAC2 which ran from 1958 to 1965. The laboratory purchased a IBM System/360 in 1964.

Computers, Digital computers, Behavior, Inventors, Wilkes, M.V.

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Between vision and enquiry

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Undergraduates of Downing College, Cambridge, England, were taught English by both Harold Mason and F.R. Leavis in the early 1950s. The two English literary critics were hostile to each other. Mason gave individual tutorials, while Leavis taught the whole year. It is hoped that Mason's works will be discovered by more people.

Criticism, Mason, Harold, Leavis, F.R.

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