Andrew Donald Booth
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Andrew Donald Booth (b. 1918) was a British engineer, physicist and computer scientist who led the invention of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm.
From 1943 to 1945 Booth worked as a mathematical physicist in the X-ray team at the British Rubber Producers' Research Association (BRPRA), Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. In 1945 he moved to Birkbeck College, University of London.
[edit] References
- Collin, Andrew. Andrew Booth's Computers at Birkbeck College. Resurrection, Issue 5, Spring 1993. London: Computer Conservation Society.
[edit] External links
- The work of Professor Andrew D. Booth at Birkbeck College
- The APEXC driver page
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