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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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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 must. J. Bowen, The Times Higher Education Supplement This book (and the related website of the Turing Archive) will be an invaluable reference for anyone seeking to understand the early history of British computers. P. Aldrich Kidwell, Technology and Culture vol. 47, pp. 460-462 An excellent documentary of Alan Turing's work ... The book provides rare insights ... The presentation is not technical but historical and inspirational ... Summing up: Recommended for general readers. CHOICE This is a provocative book. A Booth, Mathematical Reviews Meer lezen...
