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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Pages
- 553 pages
- ISBN
- 0198565933
Alan Turing's automatic computing engine
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About this book
During World War II Alan Turing's work on Colossus enabled the Allies to crack German ciphers. After the war he worked on the ACE, or automatic computing engine. This volume traces the genesis and development of ACE and examines how it became the forerunner of the modern computer system.
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