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ACE 2000
Organiser: Jack Copeland, The Turing Project, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Original conference website: http://www.AlanTuring.net/
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The ACE 2000 Event (18-19 May 2000) is being organised by the Turing Project to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Pilot Model ACE, an electronic stored-program general-purpose digital computer designed principally by Alan Turing and built at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, London. The Pilot Model Automatic Computing Engine ran its first program on May 10, 1950 and was the third stored-program computer to function in Britain. With a clock speed of 1 MHz it remained for some time the fastest computer in the world.
 

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ACE 2000 at the Science Museum of London on Thursday 18 May, hosted by the Computer Conservation Society will celebrate the Pilot Model ACE and survey the ACE family of computers and the impact that these machines had on British computing. Speakers will include many of those who constructed and programmed the Pilot Model ACE and its successors, including the English Electric DEUCE and the Bendix G15.

ACE 2000 at the National Physical Laboratory on Friday 19 May will focus on the history of computation at NPL

The Turing Project is grateful to the Science Museum of London and to the National Physical Laboratory for providing facilities for ACE 2000.

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