Alan Turing' s electronic brain [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer / / [edited by] B. Jack Copeland and others
| Alan Turing' s electronic brain [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer / / [edited by] B. Jack Copeland and others |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (580 p.) |
| Disciplina | 621.39 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CopelandB. Jack <1950-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Computers - Great Britain - History
Computer engineering - Great Britain - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-57638-4
9786613888839 0-19-164434-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The National Physical Laboratory and the ACE Project; 1. The National Physical Laboratory; 2. The creation of the NPL Mathematics Division; 3. The origins and development of the ACE project; 4. The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory; Part II: Turing and the History of Computing; 5. Turing and the computer; 6. The ACE and the shaping of British computing; 7. From Turing machine to 'electronic brain'; 8. Computer architecture and the ACE computers; Part III: The ACE Computers
9. The Pilot ACE instruction format 10. Programming the Pilot ACE; 11. The Pilot ACE: from concept to reality; 12. Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE; 13. The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15; 14. The DEUCE-a user's view; 15. The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model; 16. The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the web; Part IV: Electronics; 17. How valves work; 18. Recollections of early vacuum tube circuits; 19. Circuit design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE; Part V: Technical Reports and Lectures on the ACE 1945-47 20. Proposed electronic calculator (1945)21. Notes on memory (1945); 22. The Turing-Wilkinson lecture series (1946-7); 23. The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947); Index; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462244103321 |
| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alan Turing' s electronic brain [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer / / [edited by] B. Jack Copeland and others
| Alan Turing' s electronic brain [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer / / [edited by] B. Jack Copeland and others |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (580 p.) |
| Disciplina | 621.39 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CopelandB. Jack <1950-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Computers - Great Britain - History
Computer engineering - Great Britain - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-162586-8
1-283-57638-4 9786613888839 0-19-164434-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The National Physical Laboratory and the ACE Project; 1. The National Physical Laboratory; 2. The creation of the NPL Mathematics Division; 3. The origins and development of the ACE project; 4. The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory; Part II: Turing and the History of Computing; 5. Turing and the computer; 6. The ACE and the shaping of British computing; 7. From Turing machine to 'electronic brain'; 8. Computer architecture and the ACE computers; Part III: The ACE Computers
9. The Pilot ACE instruction format 10. Programming the Pilot ACE; 11. The Pilot ACE: from concept to reality; 12. Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE; 13. The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15; 14. The DEUCE-a user's view; 15. The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model; 16. The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the web; Part IV: Electronics; 17. How valves work; 18. Recollections of early vacuum tube circuits; 19. Circuit design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE; Part V: Technical Reports and Lectures on the ACE 1945-47 20. Proposed electronic calculator (1945)21. Notes on memory (1945); 22. The Turing-Wilkinson lecture series (1946-7); 23. The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947); Index; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785617903321 |
| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alan Turing' s electronic brain : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer / / [edited by] B. Jack Copeland and others
| Alan Turing' s electronic brain : the struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer / / [edited by] B. Jack Copeland and others |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (580 p.) |
| Disciplina | 621.39 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | CopelandB. Jack <1950-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Computers - Great Britain - History
Computer engineering - Great Britain - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-162586-8
1-283-57638-4 9786613888839 0-19-164434-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The National Physical Laboratory and the ACE Project; 1. The National Physical Laboratory; 2. The creation of the NPL Mathematics Division; 3. The origins and development of the ACE project; 4. The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory; Part II: Turing and the History of Computing; 5. Turing and the computer; 6. The ACE and the shaping of British computing; 7. From Turing machine to 'electronic brain'; 8. Computer architecture and the ACE computers; Part III: The ACE Computers
9. The Pilot ACE instruction format 10. Programming the Pilot ACE; 11. The Pilot ACE: from concept to reality; 12. Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE; 13. The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15; 14. The DEUCE-a user's view; 15. The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model; 16. The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the web; Part IV: Electronics; 17. How valves work; 18. Recollections of early vacuum tube circuits; 19. Circuit design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE; Part V: Technical Reports and Lectures on the ACE 1945-47 20. Proposed electronic calculator (1945)21. Notes on memory (1945); 22. The Turing-Wilkinson lecture series (1946-7); 23. The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947); Index; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910954573203321 |
| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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