雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(54)

This incipient rivalry was further complicated by the fact that a third British electronic computer project was initiated in mid-1946.

在初期的競爭中，還有一件事，使局面變得更爲複雜，那就是在1946年，英國的第三個電子計算機工程啓動了，這是威爾克斯的智力傑作。

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.

1945年戰爭結束時，威爾克斯放下電子通信研究所的工作，回到劍橋的數學實驗室，擔任這個項目的負責人。

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.

他馬上與沃默斯利方面取得了聯繫，但是直到1946年春天，ENIAC和EDVAC的計劃還都是機密，所以只有哈特里給他講了一些1945年的見聞，

Hartree then also arranged for him to attend a course of lectures arranged by the ENIAC team at Philadelphia in July and August 1946.

併爲他安排了1946年到賓夕法尼亞參加ENIAC團隊主辦的一系列講座。

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 computers.

莫爾學院的這一系列講座，和馮·諾伊曼團隊發表的報告，對後來的計算機發展產生了巨大的影響。

For one thing, it brought about the first federal funding for a machine on the lines of the EDVAC.

首先，這爲EDVAC爭取到了第一筆聯邦資金。

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.'

美國海軍CSAW項目的代表詹姆斯·彭德格拉斯彙報了通用計算機的優點，並反對爲特定目的製造特定的設備，"這通常是既昂貴又耗時"

(Presumably Travis had been given the same analysis a year earlier.)

（特拉維斯早在一年前就提出了這樣的結論）。

For another, it inspired Wilkes with great enthusiasm for putting his wartime electronic experience to work in building a British version of the EDVAC.

另一方面，這極大地鼓勵了威爾克斯，使他滿懷信心地準備發揮自己在戰爭期間的電子經驗，來建造一臺英國版的EDVAC。

Alan, in contrast, remained unaffected by the American developments, and they by him.

美國的發展並沒有給圖靈帶來影響，反而是美國受到了圖靈的影響。

In growth as in conception they were independent.

在理論方面，他們是彼此獨立的。

There was a little indirect contact between the ν PL and the American group.

國家物理實驗室與美國之間，有一些間接的合同。

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.

哈特里在1946年夏天參觀了ENIAC，並且獲准親自操作，他帶去了一份ACE報告，以及ACE第三版本的設計。

But its programming ideas made no obvious impression upon the Americans.

但是這種基於編程的思想，並沒有給美國人留下什麼深刻的印象。