Mark Priestley

In a 2014 paper, David Nofre, Gerard Alberts and I argued that during the 1950s programming notations became conceptualized as formal languages.

Here’s the abstract of my recent article about John Womersley’s early career: John Womersley (1907–1958) is best known for appointing Alan Turing to the postwar project to design and build an electronic computer at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (N…