Alan Turing's proposal for ACE- Feb 1946
Alan Turing joined NPL on October 1945, where he immediately set about working on the design of an electronic digital stored-program computing machine.
From his knowledge based partly on pre-war theoretical work of his own, partly on American plans coupled with his personal experience of electronics he was planning on making a machine that would be capable of carrying out any procedure that could be defined for it .
On 19th February 1946, Turing's plans for his machine with the acronym ACE(Automatic Computing Engine) devised by Womersley,
were presented to the NPL Executive Committee. The report was so detail that Womersely wrote a supportive 'executive summary' paper to introduce
it.
The details of the paper can be found here
- Descriptive Account - mainly very readable
- Technical proporsals - detailed programming techiniques as well as hardware
