艾伦图灵苹果公司 双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:水银延时线(54)

双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:水银延时线(54)  

This incipient rivalry was further plicated by the fact that a third British electronic puter project was initiated in mid-1946.
This was the brainchild of M.V. Wilkes
Alan's fellow 'B-star' of 1934 who in 1945 had left wartime work at TRE to resume his position at the Mathematical Laboratory in Cambridge
of which he now became director.
He was in touch with Womersley at once
but the ENIAC and EDVAC plans were secret until the spring of 1946
and only then could Hartree tell him about what he had seen in 1945.
他马上与沃默斯利方面取得了联系，但是直到1946年春天，ENIAC和EDVAC的计划还都是机密，所以只有哈特里给他讲了一些1945年的见闻，
Hartree then also arranged for him to attend a course of lectures arranged by the ENIAC team at Philadelphia in July and August 1946.
This course at the Moore School
together with the reports issued by von Neumann's group at the IAS
enjoyed very considerable influence upon the future development of puters.
For one thing
it brought about the first federal funding for a machine on the lines of the EDVAC.
A certain James T. Pendergrass represented the Navy's CS AW
and reported back13 upon the virtue of a universal machine
as opposed to the special purpose equipment which had 'often proved to be expensive and time-consuming.'
(Presumably Travis had been given the same analysis a year earlier.)
For another
it inspired Wilkes with great enthusiasm for putting his wartime electronic experience to work in building a British version of the EDVAC.
Alan
in contrast
remained unaffected by the American developments
and they by him.
In growth as in conception they were independent.
There was a little indirect contact beeen the ν PL and the American group.
Hartree had made a visit to the ENIAC in the summer of 1946
being allowed to use it himself
and took with him a copy of the ACE report and a 'third version' of the ACE design.
But its programming ideas made no obvious impression upon the Americans.