Learning on ScreenComputers And Control
Series
- Series Name
- Frontier
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Christopher Strachey, Fellow of Churchill College and an authority on computers, traces their development up to the ATLAS fast digital computers used by London and Manchester Universities. Stafford Beer illustrates some advanced computer use in this country to control industrial processes, the critical path technique used by London Transport to control the vast project of the Victoria Line underground extension, the Central Electricity Generating Board’s use of computers to simulate an automatic supply system, total control of an ICI chemical plant, and steel production controlled at the Park Gate Iron & Steel Co. by three computers arranged in a hierarchy.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
The British National Film Catalogue Vol. 4 1966, p 86 - used for synopsis
COI Microfilm Roll 45 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1233/7
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Commonwealth Relations Office
- Director
- Denny Denshaw
- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Producer
- Philip Dann
- Production Co.
- United Motion Picture (London) Ltd
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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