Title	Alan Turing's automatic computing engine [electronic resource] : the master codebreaker's struggle to build the modern computer
Author	edited by B. Jack Copeland
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198565932.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (xx, 553 p.) : ill

During World War II Alan Turing's work on Colossus enabled the Allies to crack German ciphers. After the war he worked on the ACE, or automatic computing engine. This volume traces the genesis and development of ACE and examines how it became the forerunner of the modern computer system