Reference to an Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ) project is referenced in memos dated from 1950 at the Alan Turing Archive.
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Davis makes a case that Turing's Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ) computer " anticipated " the notions of microprogramming ( microcode ) and RISC processors ( Davis 2000 : 188 ).
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Earlier, in 1946, Alan Turing wrote a letter to Ashby suggesting that Ashby use Turing's Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ) for his experiments instead of building a special machine.
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After the Automatic Computing Engine suffered delays and set backs, Turing accepted Newman's offer and joined the Computer Machine Laboratory in May 1948 as Deputy Director ( there being no Director ).
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When Alan Turing heard of Ashby's intention to build the Homeostat, he wrote to Ashby to suggest that he could run a simulation on Turing's Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ) instead of building a special machine.
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Turing presented a more detailed paper to the National Physical Laboratory ( NPL ) Executive Committee in 1946, giving the first reasonably complete design of a stored-program computer, a device he called the Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ).
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When Turing returned to the UK he ultimately became jointly responsible for breaking the German secret codes created by encryption machines called " The Enigma "; he also became involved in the design of the ACE ( Automatic Computing Engine ), " [ Turing's ] ACE proposal was effectively self-contained, and its roots lay not in the EDVAC [ the USA's initiative ], but in his own universal machine " ( Hodges p . 318 ).