雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(75)
He also identified the guiding principle which distinguished his plans for the ACE from those of the von Neumann group and of Wilkes:
We are trying to make greater use of the facilities available in the machine to do all kinds of different things simply by programming rather than by the addition of extra apparatus. ...
我們試着充分利用目前可用的設備，通過編程來使該機器得以處理各種不同的工作，而不是通過增加額外的硬件設備……This is an application of the general principle that any particular operation of physical apparatus can be reproduced within the EDVAC-type machine.
這是一個普適的原則，物理設備能執行的任何操作，都可以被解構，並在類EDVAC的機器注內部執行。
Thus, we eliminate additional apparatus simply by putting in more programming.
因此，我們通過增加更多的編程工作量，就可以避免增加更多的硬件設備。The conference brought Alan into contact with Claude Shannon and Andrew Gleason again.
這次座談會，也使圖靈再次見到了克勞德·香農和安德魯·格力森。He also took the opportunity to brush up and submit to Alonzo Church's journal some wartime work on type theory.
圖靈還利用這次機會，向阿隆佐·丘奇的刊物提交了一些關於類型論的成果，這是他在戰爭期間做的。Afterwards, Alan spent about two weeks at Princeton.
然後，圖靈到普林斯頓待了兩個星期。The Americans were no further ahead in constructing an electronic computer than was the NPL, and had run into parallel problems.
在電子計算機領域，美國現在已經不比英國領先了，而且他們也遇到了一些障礙。The line between 'mathematics' and 'engineering' was one of these, Eckert and Mauchly having split off to found their own company, and a patent suit over aspects of the EDVAC design being in progress.
數學與工程之間的鴻溝是其中之一，還有埃克特與莫切利分道揚鑣，各自去搞自己的公司了，EDVAC也發生了專利糾紛，正在進行訴訟。Von Neumann and Goldstine had been thinking, like Alan, about the problem to do with the numerical analysis of matrix inversion, and also about the physics of mercury delay lines.
與圖靈一樣，馮·諾伊曼和戈爾斯坦現在也在思考矩陣求逆的數值算法，以及水銀延遲線的物理性質等問題。Goldstine got the false impression that Alan thought delay lines could not work. This might have been because Alan talked about some of the more subtle difficulties.
不過，戈爾斯坦誤認爲圖靈不支持延遲線，這可能是因爲圖靈談到了一些延遲線的困難。
