
Dr. Mays and Dr. Prinz's Relay-operated logic machine











Relay-operated logic machine designed by Dr. Wolfe Mays and Dr. Dietrich Prinz at the University of Manchester and made by Ferranti Limited, British, 1951
Pattern-recognition was part of wider research into machine intelligence. This machine was made by physicist Dietrich Prinz, one of Alan Turing’s protégés, and Wolfe Mays, a philosophy lecturer. It is an electrical device for testing certain logical statements, and helped researchers build human-like qualities into machines using mathematics.
Research into pattern recognition now has widespread commercial and military applications, from driverless cars, fingerprint-scanners and robots on battlefields to surveillance and cyber-security.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1959-25
- Materials:
- steel (metal), aluminium alloy, chromium plated, copper (alloy) and plastic (unidentified)
- Measurements:
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Overall: 465 mm x 700 mm x 430 mm, 42 kg
- type:
- logic machine
- credit:
- University of Manchester