by B. Jack Copeland · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780199609154
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«Alan Turing's Electronic Brain» is B. Jack Copeland's essay on the history of computing, published by Oxford University Press in paperback.
It reconstructs Alan Turing's trajectory from cracking the Enigma code to designing the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a computer programmable via instructions stored in memory. It includes testimonies from Turing and other computing pioneers, with the ACE's hardware and software and its early programs.
This revised 581-page edition originates from the 2005 work 'Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine', and includes diagrams, illustrations, and original photographs. Text in English.
Aimed at a professional and academic audience, though accessible to anyone interested in the history of computing and Alan Turing.
