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Dr Doron Swade MBE, MSc, CEng, Hon. FBCS, CITP is Honorary Adviser to the Board. He is an engineer, historian and museum professional. He studied electronics, physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, control engineering, history and philosophy of science, and man-machine studies at various universities including the University of Cape Town, Cambridge, and Essex.
Abstract: Alan Turing continues to dazzle, enlighten and bemuse. His work is difficult to situate, straddling as it does theory, practice and philosophical speculation. The nature and extent of his influence continues to elude us, and the haunting originality of his work resists convenient typecasting. He was capable of blinding clarity as well ...
Doron Swade, an engineer, technology historian, & leading authority on Charles Babbage, is assistant director & head of collections at London's Science Museum. He is also the mastermind of a six-year project to construct a Babbage calculating engine from original nineteenth-century designs. He lives in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, England.
Doron Swade is an engineer, a historian, and a museum professional. He was Curator of Computing at the London Science Museum (1985-1999), and Assistant Director and Head of Collections there (1999-2003).
13 de abr. de 2000 · What a difference a century makes. Doron Swade, technology historian and assistant director of London's Science Museum, investigates the troubles that plagued 19th-century knowledge engineers in The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer.
10 de dic. de 2009 · But Doron Swade, a former curator at ... Swade says, "I still never fail to receive pleasure from watching people's reaction when they first see this extraordinary spectacle. Their jaws literally ...
18 de jul. de 2023 · This work was led by its then curator of computing, Doron Swade. The planning and construction of Difference Engine No.2 had commenced in 1985 and drew upon the surviving Babbage models and components in the museum’s collections and the museum’s Babbage archive, which contains almost the entire surviving technical material relating to his automatic calculating machines.
