The Turing Guide
202 | 20 BABy The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) had mailed Williams a copy of Turing’s ‘Proposed electronic calculator’ in ...
COPElAND | 203 became the ‘person who really . . . pushed the whole field ahead’, Bigelow explained, was that he understood what ...
204 | 20 BABy honed in the Newmanry, was now brought to bear on the problem of designing and construct- ing an electronic stored ...
COPElAND | 205 a series of lectures on computer design in London, and it was decided that Kilburn would attend.^44 The lectures ...
206 | 20 BABy and logical operations were carried out at various ‘destinations’: these were typically mercury delay lines. One d ...
COPElAND | 207 centralized design.^62 ‘Newman explained the whole business of how a computer works to us’, Williams remarked.^63 ...
208 | 20 BABy 1948 letter to Nature with the instructions in Good’s May 1947 set.) Kilburn decided that sub- traction should be ...
COPElAND | 209 the Princeton design. Apart from Kilburn’s idea of using subtraction as the single basic arith- metical operation ...
210 | 20 BABy the logical control—go far beyond anything to be found in the ‘First draft’. This minor borrow- ing is probably wh ...
COPElAND | 211 also created the first moving digital images ever to appear on a computer screen, in June 1948: rhythmically chan ...
212 | 20 BABy ADORATION CHERISHES YOUR AVID ARDOUR. YOURS WISTFULLY M. U. C. Turing, rather more practically, typed his own lett ...
CHAPTER 21 ACE martin campbell-kelly I n October 1945 Alan Turing was recruited by the National Physical Laboratory to lead comp ...
214 | 21 ACE England and subsequently spent the war years at Bletchley Park. Although there is no explicit citation of Turing’s ...
CAmPBEll-kElly | 215 he was the sole member of his section, but he was joined by James Wilkinson in May 1946. Although Turing le ...
216 | 21 ACE they could be placed so that they emerged from the delay line just at the moment they were needed: this would elimi ...
CAmPBEll-kElly | 217 reacted negatively to this suggestion, no doubt supposing that it would delay the building of a full-scale ...
218 | 21 ACE The ACE section developed an impressive subroutine library, which included common requirements such as trigonometri ...
CAmPBEll-kElly | 219 The Pilot ACE was later augmented with a magnetic drum which put its total storage capacity on a par with t ...
220 | 21 ACE Another machine was exported to the New South Wales Institute of Technology in 1956. Generally, however, DEUCE was ...
CAmPBEll-kElly | 221 In a way, the demise of ACE vindicated Wilkes’s original objections to Turing’s design. Wilkes argued that ...
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