Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine

B. Jack Copeland (The Turing Project, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Springer London Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 November 2003
Pages
384
ISBN
9781852335281

Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine

B. Jack Copeland (The Turing Project, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

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.

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