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06049100 Copeland, B. Jack Alan Turing's electronic brain. The struggle to build the ACE, the world's fastest computer. Reprint of the hardback edition published under the title `Alan Turing's automatic computing engine'. Oxford: Oxford University Press (ISBN 978-0-19-960915-4/pbk). xxiii, 553~p. \sterling~14.99 (2012). 2012 Oxford: Oxford University Press EN Automatic Computing Engine ACE Pilot ACE DEUCE National Physical Laboratory Alan Turing British computing computer architecture Turing machine Zbl 1077.01012

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This is a reprint of the book published under the title ``Alan Turing's automatic computing engine" in 2005 see [Zbl 1077.01012]. It consists of twenty-three chapters written by various authors and devoted mainly to the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), a stored-program universal computer designed by Alan Turing in 1945. The book explores the relation between the ACE and Turing's earlier work on computability, describes the long and complicated history of the ACE project at the National Physical Laboratory, and also provides a detailed overview of the hardware and software of the ACE and related machines. The final part includes reprints of Turing's 1945 report ``Proposed electronic calculator", and the Turing-Wilkinson lecture series from 1946--47. The book is an indispensable source of information for anybody interested in the history of post-war computing. For more information, see the review of [Zbl 1077.01012]. Anton\'{\i}n Slav\'{\i}k (Praha)