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Alan Turing's Electronic Brain - The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer (Paperback)
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Alan Turing's Electronic Brain - The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer (Paperback)
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The mathematical genius Alan Turing, now well known for his crucial
wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive
of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of
controlling a computing machine's operations by means of a program
of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'. In 1945
Turing drew up his revolutionary design for an electronic computing
machine-his Automatic Computing Engine ('ACE'). A pilot model of
the ACE ran its first program in 1950 and the production version,
the 'DEUCE', went on to become a cornerstone of the fledgling
British computer industry. The first 'personal' computer was based
on Turing's ACE. Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine describes
Turing's struggle to build the modern computer. The first detailed
history of Turing's contributions to computer science, this text is
essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the
computer and the history of mathematics. It contains first hand
accounts by Turing and by the pioneers of computing who worked with
him. As well as relating the story of the invention of the
computer, the book clearly describes the hardware and software of
the ACE-including the very first computer programs. The book is
intended to be accessible to everyone with an interest in
computing, and contains numerous diagrams and illustrations as well
as original photographs. The book contains chapters describing
Turing's path-breaking research in the fields of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Life (A-Life). The book has an
extensive system of hyperlinks to The Turing Archive for the
History of Computing, an on-line library of digital facsimiles of
typewritten documents by Turing and the other scientists who
pioneered the electronic computer.
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