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    The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious...
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    Turing's more detailed Proposed Electronic Calculator for the Automatic Computing Engine, also 1945 and which cited John von Neumann's paper. The term...
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    The Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom. Built at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)...
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    member of the team there responsible for building Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) thought of the idea of a network of interconnected data...
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  • Report by Dr. A.M. Turing on proposals for the development of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE): Submitted to the Executive Committee of the NPL in February...
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    David Wheeler (computer scientist) (category History of computing in the United Kingdom)
    Report by Dr. A.M. Turing on proposals for the development of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE): Submitted to the Executive Committee of the NPL in February...
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    February 2008), "The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC)", Columbia University Computing History: A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University...
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    A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was created by Charles...
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    Alan Turing (category History of computing in the United Kingdom)
    designed the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948, Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory...
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    Checkers (1952 video game) (category History of computing in the United Kingdom)
    prototype computer called the Pilot ACE, based on Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine. To familiarize himself with programming on this machine, Strachey...
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    worked with Alan Turing on the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) in the United Kingdom and on the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) in the 1950s...
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  • for variants of this meaning. Turing machine may also refer to: Automatic Computing Engine, an early computer designed by Turing using vacuum tubes and mercury...
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    engineering and programming detail, his idea of a machine he called the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). He presented this to the executive committee of the British...
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    hardware. In 1945, Turing finished the design for a computer (the Automatic Computing Engine) that was never built. Around this time, technological advancement...
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    the pioneering analytical engine in 1837. Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device, the difference engine, was a special-purpose machine...
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    ISSN 0025-5718. Copeland, B. J., ed. (2005), Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-856593-3 Turing, Alan...
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  • In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. Search...
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  • a fleet of VM instances. Google Compute Engine Unit (GCEU), which is pronounced as GQ, is an abstraction of computing resources. According to Google,...
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    The DEUCE (Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine) was one of the earliest British commercially available computers, built by English Electric from...
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    history of computing software and hardware: from prehistory until 1949. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see History of computing. Timeline...
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    Proposals for Development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). (NB. Presented on 1946-03-19 before the Executive Committee...
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    "The Enigma"; he also became involved in the design of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine), "[Turing's] ACE proposal was effectively self-contained, and...
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  • Compute Engine, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products Automatic Computing Engine, a 1952 British computer Automatic Content...
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    Transam Triton Tuscan Difference engine Analytical Engine Bombe AEI 1010 APEXC Atlas (computer) Automatic Computing Engine Colossus computer CTL Modular...
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    Harry Huskey (category 1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
    electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947). In Copeland, B. J., Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, chapter 23, pages...
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    The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended...
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    modifications in 1946 introduced automatic program branching (by subroutine call). The first programmers of the Mark I were computing pioneers Richard Milton Bloch...
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  • on the work of Alan Turing". Davis makes a case that Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) computer "anticipated" the notions of microprogramming (microcode)...
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    long-tailed pair circuitry used in early computing can be found in Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine (Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-856593-3)...
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    Turochamp (category 1948 in computing)
    complex to be run by the early computers of the time such as the Automatic Computing Engine. Turing attempted to convert the program into executable code...
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