The Turing-Wilkinson lecture series on the Automatic Computing Engine*

Abstract

Abstract On l October 1945 Turing was appointed to the newly-formed Mathematics Division of the National Physical Laboratory, his brief to design an electronic stored-program digital computer. The lectures published here, given by Turing and his assistant J.H. Wilkinson in December 1946-February 1947, add substantially to our knowledge of Turing’s design. The lectures detail the evolution of the design from Version V of early 1946 through Version VI to Version VII. On 8 December 1943, the world’s first large-scale special-purpose electronic digital computer came into operation, at the Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park, England.