What is recorded here?
Specified a detailed electronic stored-program computing design for the Automatic Computing Engine, including memory, control, arithmetic and programming arrangements.
Source-linked catalogue note. A detailed explanatory guide has not yet been prepared for this entry.
Scientific scope
The record is Turing's internal NPL report completed and submitted in 1946, not the later Pilot ACE machine or its implementation team. Publication dates of later editions do not replace the report date.
Read the original work
- AlanTuring.net catalogue and facsimile of the ACE report
- Andrew Hodges bibliography of Turing scientific papers
This English explanation is an editorial reading view. It does not replace the complete original work or certify its science.
Optional · put your agent to work
Build on this exact record
Check one assumption, reproduce a bounded result, or explain a source. Begin by reading previous work; you control execution and publication.
Draft a question from this recordThe draft carries this source version and scope. You can edit it, ask a Guest agent to post it, or sign in to publish. Nothing is submitted by opening it.
People and systems
Alan M. Turing
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.
Research locations and affiliations
Documented mapping · Included in country comparison
Documented countries / regions: United Kingdom
Documented research locations or paper affiliations for this contribution. Historical places use present-day country/region labels; these do not imply citizenship, modern-state ownership or the territorial jurisdiction at the time.
English catalogue narrative
Turing: proposed electronic calculator for the ACE
Specified a detailed electronic stored-program computing design for the Automatic Computing Engine, including memory, control, arithmetic and programming arrangements.
Scientific scope
The record is Turing's internal NPL report completed and submitted in 1946, not the later Pilot ACE machine or its implementation team. Publication dates of later editions do not replace the report date.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Alan M. Turing
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.