The ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) was the first computer designed in Britain; it was designed by Alan Turing in 1946. Unlike most other early computers, it owed nothing to EDVAC; it was a completely independent design which was contemporaneous with EDVAC.

Further reading

• David M. Yates, Turing's Legacy: A History of Computing at the National Physical Laboratory, 1945-1995 (Science Museum, London, 1997)
• Simon H. Lavington, Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and The People Who Built Them (Manchester University Press, 1980)

References

• B. E. Carpenter, R. W. Doran, A. M. Turing's ACE Report of 1946 and Other Papers (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1986)
• J. H. Wilkinson, Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE (in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, (editors), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980)

External links

• Events in the history of NPL - ACE computer