- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Photographs
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The National Physical Laboratory
- 2 The creation of the NPL Mathematics Division
- 3 The origins and development of the ACE project
- 4 The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Turing and the computer
- 6 The ACE and the shaping of British computing
- 7 From Turing machine to ‘electronic brain’
- 8 Computer architecture and the ACE computers
- 9 The Pilot ACE instruction format
- 10 Programming the Pilot ACE
- 11 The Pilot ACE: from concept to reality
- 12 Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE
- 13 The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15
- 14 The DEUCE—a user's view
- 15 <i>The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model</i>
- 16 The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the web
- 17 How valves work
- 18 Recollections of early vacuum tube circuits
- 19 Circuit design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE
- 20 Proposed electronic calculator (1945)
- 21 Notes on memory (1945)
- 22 The Turing–Wilkinson lecture series (1946–7)
- 23 The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947)
- Index
Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE
Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE
- Chapter:
- (p.265) 12 Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE
- Source:
- Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine
- Author(s):
Tom Vickers
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses applications of the Pilot ACE. These applications include linear equations, photogrammetry, traffic simulation, matrix programmes, demonstration programmes, and crystallography. The Pilot ACE was a highly successful computer, earning around £100,000 in its four years of life.
Keywords: Pilot ACE, linear equations, photogrammetry, traffic simulation, matrix programmes, demonstration programmes, crystallography
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Photographs
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The National Physical Laboratory
- 2 The creation of the NPL Mathematics Division
- 3 The origins and development of the ACE project
- 4 The Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Turing and the computer
- 6 The ACE and the shaping of British computing
- 7 From Turing machine to ‘electronic brain’
- 8 Computer architecture and the ACE computers
- 9 The Pilot ACE instruction format
- 10 Programming the Pilot ACE
- 11 The Pilot ACE: from concept to reality
- 12 Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE
- 13 The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15
- 14 The DEUCE—a user's view
- 15 <i>The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model</i>
- 16 The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the web
- 17 How valves work
- 18 Recollections of early vacuum tube circuits
- 19 Circuit design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE
- 20 Proposed electronic calculator (1945)
- 21 Notes on memory (1945)
- 22 The Turing–Wilkinson lecture series (1946–7)
- 23 The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947)
- Index
