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Stroje na zpracování informací, čili matematické: výpočetní technika v Československu 1945-1960
| Title in English | Information processing machines or mathematical machines: computing technology in Czechoslovakia in 1945-1960 |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Věda a technika v Československu v letech 1945-1960 |
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| Field | General mathematics |
| Keywords | mathematical machines, information processing machines, Czechoslovak computing |
| Description | The end of the Second World War can be regarded as the beginning of a rapid development of computing technology and the Czech Lands do not make any exception in this respect. The return of Antonín Svoboda (1907-1980) home in 1946 played a key role in the Czech Lands. In 1947, he designed an automatic computer in the Mathematical Research Institutute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and, 10 years later, the first Czechoslovak computer was put into operation. During this period, Antonín Svoboda brought up many specialists in the field of information processing machines (mathematical machines). In 1958, this field, until then developed in a scientific environment, was shifted under the competency of the Ministry of Precision Engineering: to the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines. |