TY - BOOK ID - 78071868 TI - Alan Turing' s electronic brain PY - 2012 SN - 1283576384 9786613888839 019164434X 9780191644344 9780199609154 0199609152 0191625868 9780191625862 9781283576383 6613888834 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Computers KW - Computer engineering KW - Automatic computers KW - Automatic data processors KW - Computer hardware KW - Computing machines (Computers) KW - Electronic brains KW - Electronic calculating-machines KW - Electronic computers KW - Hardware, Computer KW - Computer systems KW - Cybernetics KW - Machine theory KW - Calculators KW - Cyberspace KW - History. KW - Design and construction KW - Turing, Alan Mathison, KW - Turing, Alan M. KW - Turing, A. M. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071868 AB - 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 his revolutionary design for an electronic computing machine-his Automatic Computing Engine ('ACE'). A pilot model of the ACE ran its firstprogram in 1950 and the production version, the 'DEUCE', went on to become a cornerstone of the fledgling British ER -