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Automatic Computing Engine Lecture

Great Britain · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1947

Alan Mathison Turing1947

London · Science / Technology

Lectures on the Automatic Computing Engine and explains how electronic machinery can implement general-purpose computation.

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Alan Mathison Turing

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