Bertrand Russell |
Last century, the Bloomsbury Group was internationally known as a highly innovative gathering of scientists, social scientists, writers and painters who collaborated in shaping new literary and cultural visions. Associated with the group were the economist Maynard Keynes; the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell; the historian Lytton Strachey;
Virginia Woolf |
the novelist Virginia Woolf; her publisher husband Leonard; and the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
After the Second War, Dr Andrew Booth of Birkbeck worked on computing technologies with John von Neumann's group at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. By 1952 (in parallel with von Neumann's MANIAC 1) Booth had designed and built, at the Birkbeck College Computation Laboratory, one of the world's first stored-program computers.
Dr Andrew Booth |
An early computer |
In the twenty-first century, Bloomsbury's Knowledge Lab inherits the earlier group's tradition of interdisciplinary enquiry, at the frontiers of knowledge. |
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