Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer
Edited by B. Jack Copeland
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents
List of Photographs xvi
Contributors xvii
Introduction 1 B. Jack Copeland
Part I The National Physical Laboratory and the ACE Project
1. The National Physical Laboratory 15 Eileen Magnello
2. The creation of the NPL Mathematics Division 2 3 Mary Croarken
3. The origins and development of the ACE project 3 7 B. Jack Copeland
4. The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory 93 James H. Wilkinson
Part II Turing and the History of Computing
5. Turing and the computer 107 B. Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot
6. The ACE and the shaping of British computing 149 Martin Campbell-Kelly
7. From Turing machine to 'electronic brain' 173 Teresa Numerico Contents
Part III The ACE Computers
9. The Pilot ACE instruction format 209 Henry John Norton
10. Programming the Pilot ACE 215 /. G. Hayes
11. The Pilot ACE: from concept to reality 223 Robin A. Vowels
12. Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE 265 Tom Vickers
13. The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, andtheBendixGis 281 Harry D. Huskey
14. The DEUCE—a user's view 297 Robin A. Vowels
15. The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model 331 Michael Woodger
16. The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the web 335 Benjamin Wells
Part IV Electronics
17. How valves work 341 David 0. Clayden
18. Recollections of early vacuum tube circuits 345 Maurice Wilkes
19. Circuit design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE 349 David 0. Clayden
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Part V Technical Reports and Lectures on the ACE 1945-47
20. Proposed electronic calculator (1945) 369 Alan M. Turing
21. Notes on memory (1945) 455 Alan M. Turing
22. The Turing-Wilkinson lecture series (1946-7) (edited with an introduction by B. Jack Copeland) 459 AlanM. Turing and James H. Wilkinson
2 3. The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947) 529 Harry D. Huskey
Index 541
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