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SUMMARY:Alan Turing as a computer designer - Prof. Brian Carpenter\, Unive
 rsity of Auckland Computer Science
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CONTACT:Stephen Clark
DESCRIPTION:Turing is widely regarded as a pure mathematician\, so how was
  he able to write\n"Proposals for development in the Mathematics\nDivision
  of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)" at the end of 1945? Turing\, in\n
 fact\, was a pragmatist\, and by the end of the\nSecond World War he was e
 ven an amateur electronics engineer. He was also\nfortunate enough to be k
 nown to people like Hartree\,\nWomersley and Comrie who were anxious to se
 e work started on automatic\ncomputing devices.\n\nThe seminar will cover 
 the background to the ACE computer development\,\nimportant aspects of the
  original ACE design including\n Turing's first software (written in 1945)
 \, his formative ideas\, and what\nhappened to them.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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