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Alan Turing's Other Universal Machine.

The article discusses the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a stored program computer proposed by the computer scientist Alan Turing in 1946, examining its design and influence. The author examines the ACE's use of mercury delay-line memory, optimum programming, and multiple registers. The article d...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 7; pp. 31 - 34
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2012
Subjects:
Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
History of computers
Computer engineering
Computer programming
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