Alan Turing's automatic computing engine

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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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Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	553
Search language	english
ISBN_10	0-198-56593-3 primary

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