Alan Turing' s electronic brain : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer /

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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, store...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954.
Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954
Computers > Great Britain > History.
Computer engineering > Great Britain > History.
Ordinateurs > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Ordinateurs > Conception et construction > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
COMPUTERS > Computer Engineering.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
Computer engineering
Computers
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The National Physical Laboratory and the ACE Project; 1. The National Physical Laboratory; 2. The creation of the NPL Mathematics Division; 3. The origins and development of the ACE project; 4. The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory; Part II: Turing and the History of Computing; 5. Turing and the computer; 6. The ACE and the shaping of British computing; 7. From Turing machine to 'electronic brain'; 8. Computer architecture and the ACE computers; Part III: The ACE Computers.
  • 9. The Pilot ACE instruction format10. Programming the Pilot ACE; 11. The Pilot ACE: from concept to reality; 12. Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE; 13. The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15; 14. The DEUCE-a user's view; 15. The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model; 16. The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the web; Part IV: Electronics; 17. How valves work; 18. Recollections of early vacuum tube circuits; 19. Circuit design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE; Part V: Technical Reports and Lectures on the ACE 1945-47.
  • 20. Proposed electronic calculator (1945)21. Notes on memory (1945); 22. The Turing-Wilkinson lecture series (1946-7); 23. The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947); Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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