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Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to build the Modern Computer
Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to build the Modern Computer
Author: B. Jack Copeland
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 means of a program of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'. In 1945 Turing drew up ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199609154
ISBN-10: 0199609152
Publication Date: 8/1/2012
Pages: 592
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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