Alan Turing's automatic computing engine: the master codebreaker's struggle to build the modern computer
Choice Reviews Online · 2005
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 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)