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Automatic Computing Engine

computer science

Also known as: ACE

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design by Turing

In Alan Turing: Computer designer
His design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first complete specification of an electronic stored-program all-purpose digital computer. Had Turing’s ACE been built as he planned, it would have had vastly more memory than any of the other early computers, as well as being faster. However, his…
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work of Wilkinson

In James H. Wilkinson
…many collaborators, Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) according to Turing’s basic idea. Pilot ACE became operational in 1950, two years after Turing had left the project.
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