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Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine : the Master Codebreaker's Struggle to build the Modern Computer.
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Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine : the Master Codebreaker's Struggle to build the Modern Computer.

Auteur: B Jack Copeland; Oxford University Press.
Uitgever: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Serie: Oxford scholarship online.
Editie/Formaat:   eBoek : Document : EngelsAlle edities en materiaalsoorten bekijken.
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During World War II Alan Turing's work on Colossus enabled the Allies to crack German ciphers. After the war he worked on the ACE, or automatic computing engine. This volume traces the genesis and development of ACE and examines how it became the forerunner of the modern computer system.
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Genoemd persoon: Alan Mathison Turing
Genre: Document, Internetbron
Soort document: Internetbron, Computerbestand
Alle auteurs / medewerkers: B Jack Copeland; Oxford University Press.
ISBN: 9780198565932 0198565933
OCLC-nummer: 319064541
Beschrijving: 576 p.
Inhoud: Foreword; Introduction; PART I: THE NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY AND THE ACE PROJECT; A Century of Measurement and Computation at the National Physical Laboratory, 1900-2000; The Creation of the NPL Mathematics Division; The Origins and Development of the ACE Project; The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory; PART II: TURING AND THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING; The ACE and the Shaping of British Computing; Computer Architecture and the ACE Computers; Turing and the Computer; From Turing Machine to "Electronic Brain"; PART III: THE ACE COMPUTERS; The Pilot ACE Instruction Format; Programming the Pilot ACE; The Pilot ACE: from Concept to Reality; The DEUCE-a User's View; Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE; The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15; The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model; The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the Web; PART IV: ELECTRONICS; How Valves Work; Recollections of Early Vacuum Tube Circuits; Circuit Design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE; PART V: TECHNICAL REPORTS AND LECTURES ON THE ACE AND THE PILOT ACE, 1945-1951; Proposed Electronic Calculator (1945); Notes on Memory (1945); The Turing-Wilkinson Lecture Series (1946-1947); The State of the Art in Electronic Digital Computing in Britain and the United States (1947)
Serietitel: Oxford scholarship online.

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Describing the author's struggle to build the modern computer, this book contains first hand accounts by him and by the pioneers of computing who worked with him. It is intended to be accessible to  Meer lezen...

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the amount of information collected by the editor is huge and it offers interesting reading for anybody with a deep interest in computer history. EMS Newsletter Wonderful...The Essential Turing is a Meer lezen...

 
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