Alan Turing's Electronic Brain: The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer by B. Jack Copeland

Alan Turing's Electronic Brain: The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer

B. Jack Copeland

553 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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The mathematical genius Alan Turing, now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of controlling a computing machine's operations by...

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