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Automatic Computing Engine

Date
1945 · confidence high
Place
Teddington, London, United Kingdom
Credited to
Alan Turing
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What it is

Design for an electronic stored-program computer devised by Alan Turing at the National Physical Laboratory; never built as such, but it led to the Pilot ACE.

What it led to

  • Construction of the Pilot ACE in 1950
  • The MOSAIC computer, an enlarged version of the design
  • Influence on the Bendix G-15 and other commercial computers
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