Book Review: Alan Turing’s automatic computing engine: the master codebreaker’s struggle to build the modern computer

David Anderson

doi:10.1080/01445340701308554

Book Review: Alan Turing’s automatic computing engine: the master codebreaker’s struggle to build the modern computer

David Anderson

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On 21 June 1948, the first operation of a stored-program computer (the ‘Small
Scale Electronic Computer’) took place at the University of Manchester in the UK. B. Jack Copeland (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 558 pp. £61.00. ISBN-10: 0-19-856593-3

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	389-396
Journal	History and Philosophy of Logic
Volume	29
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340701308554
Publication status	Published - 23 Oct 2008

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