Turing Saw the Future of Computing
Storage more important than speed
Today in 1947, Alan Turing presented to the London Mathematical Society a detailed description of the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), an early British stored-program computer.
In addition to explaining how the ACE worked, Turing touched in his presentation on other topics that are much discussed today, such as the impact of computers on jobs and the qu…
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