Biographical entry Beard, Maston

Summary

Maston Beard, with Trevor Pearcey, was involved in the development of CSIRAC, an early vacuum-tube stored-program computer for the CSIR/O 1947-51.

Published resources

Books

• McCann, Doug and Thorne, Peter, The Last of the First CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, 196 pp. Details
• The Radiophysics Laboratory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, A Textbook of Radar, Angus & Robertson, Sydney; London, 1947, 579 pp. Author of Chapter 20. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Beard Maston', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476297. Details
• Pass, Steven, CSIRAC: Australia's first computer in 1949, Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 2000, http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/csirac/. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003026. Details
• Brown, R. Hanbury; Minnett, Harry C; White, Fredrick W. G., 'Edward George Bowen 1911-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992, pp. 151-166. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920920151.htm. Details