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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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Alan Turing and the Ace computer

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To get you in the mood for thinking about the development and history of computing, here is an article from the BBC about Alan Turing, an important figure in the development of both early computer hardware and computational science, and the ACE computer, the Automatic Computing Engine.
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Final Coursework

The requirements for coursework 5 have been posted. The core requirements for this project are more straightforward than the Manchester Baby simulator but there is scope for some very interesting extensions.
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Manchester Baby Films

Two youtube films that I found which feature the Manchester Baby. The first is vintage footage from the BBC, reporting on the birth of the baby,  which was unearthed for the fiftieth celebrations of the Baby and accompanied this article. This footage was helpfully reposted to youtube as well:

Additionally I found this footage of two of the inventors of the Baby, Tom Kilburn, who wrote the first ever program to run on the baby which was used to test the hardware, and Geoff Tootill:

 

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Coursework #4 - Dev Project #2 Posted

The requirements for the second development coursework, "Simulating the Manchester Baby" have been posted.
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Posterous theme by Cory Watilo.
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