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title: "Doron Swade"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Doron Swade"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-20T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["MONIAC","Science Museum London","Bill Phillips","history of computing curatorship"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
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British historian of computing and former Senior Curator of Computing and
Information Technology at the Science Museum, London — also known for
leading the museum's reconstruction of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2. In
this vault, his 1995 *Resurrection* (Computer Conservation Society bulletin)
account of the [[claim-phillips-moniac-hydraulic-economic-computer-1949|MONIAC]]
is an independent, artifact-level corroboration of the machine's accuracy:
describing a surviving machine's own calibrated scales rather than repeating
a secondary figure, he confirms Phillips's own ±4% claim against the ~2%
figure that had circulated uncontested.

## References
- [[claim-barr-1988-uncited-2-percent-accuracy-figure-contradicted-by-phillips-and-swade]]
- Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-20-do-the-moniacs-400-build-cost-and-2.md