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Alan Turing' s electronic brain : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer /
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, store...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 firstprogram in 1950 and the production version, the 'DEUCE', went on to become a cornerstone of the fledgling British. |
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| Notas: | Revised edition of: Alan Turing's automatic computing engine / edited by B. Jack Copeland. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 553 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780191644344 019164434X 0191625868 9780191625862 1283576384 9781283576383 9786613888839 6613888834 |