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Dewey Class	006.3
Title	Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine : The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to build the Modern Computer ([Ebook]) / B. Jack Copeland
Author	Copeland, Jack B.
Other name(s)	Oxford Scholarship Online
Publication	Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press , 2008
Physical Details	1 online resource
ISBN	9780191714016
Note	Print publication date: 2005 ; Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Summary Note	The mathematical genius Alan Turing (1912-1954) was one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of the 20th century. Now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, he 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 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 first programme in 1950 and the production version, the ‘DEUCE’, went on to become a cornerstone of the fledgling British computer industry. The first ‘personal’ computer was based on Turing's ACE. This book describes Turing's struggle to build the modern computer. It contains first-hand accounts by Turing and by the pioneers of computing who worked with him. The book describes the hardware and software of the ACE and contains chapters describing Turing's path-breaking research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Life (A-Life).:
Mode of acces to digital resource	Digital reproduction. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - Access available through World Wide Web. All files are in HTML format
System details note	Online Access to this digital book is available through IP address and only to subscription institutions (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198565932.001.0001
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Artificial intelligence . Computers — Great Britain — History . Turing, Alan Mathison 1912-1954 . Authors: Copeland, Jack B. . Corporate Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online . Classification: 006.3 . 006.3 (DDC 23) .

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