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ACE

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1946

Alan Mathison Turing19 February 1946

Science / Technology

Works on the design of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)presents a paper which was the first detailed design of a stored-program computer

Names involved

Alan Mathison Turing

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