雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(55)
As a theoretician of computers, von Neumann had been joined by Norbert Wiener, the American mathematician of a slightly earlier generation, whom the war had likewise taken from group theory to machinery, although in his case the servo-mechanisms of anti-aircraft artillery had been the formative influence.
Thus von Neumann and Wiener corresponded in connection with the potential of the planned EDVAC, but mostly in terms of the faculty of conditional branching corresponding to 'feedback'.
因此馮·諾伊曼與維納在EDVAC項目中保持着聯繫，但大多數的討論都是關於條件轉移設備的，They did not discuss hierarchies of programs, nor the computer reorganising and creating its own instructions.
他們沒有討論程序的層次，也沒有涉及到計算機的重構和改變自身指令。
They remained most impressed with the McCulloch and Pitts ideas, which suggested that the logical functions of electronic valves bore some similarity to the structure of neurons in the human nervous system.
他們都對麥卡洛克和皮茨的思想印象深刻，這些思想體現了電子真空管與人類神經系統之間的相似之處。In a letter of 29 November 1946, von Neumann wrote to Wiener of the 'extremely bold efforts' of Pitts and McCulloch, with which he 'would like to put on one par the very un-neurological thesis of R. (sic) Turing.'
1946年11月29日，馮·諾伊曼在寫給維納的信中提到："麥卡洛克和皮茨的大膽嘗試，與圖靈博士的非神經觀點同樣重要。"In the other direction, likewise, there was limited communication.
在其它方面，他們也有着一些有限的交流。The Draft Report on the EDVAC was there at the NPL, and Alan continued to make use of its notation for logical networks.
在國家物理實驗室，圖靈使用《EDVAC草案》中的符號標記來描述邏輯網絡。David Rees, who attended the Moore School lectures on behalf of the Manchester interest, reported back to Alan and Jim Wilkinson for ten days or so.
大衛·李代表曼徹斯特，參加了莫爾學院的講座，並將其彙報給圖靈和威爾金森。But the American plans had no particular influence on the ACE project, Alan being notably sceptical about the prospects for the Iconoscope, the storage medium on which the Americans were pinning their hopes.
但是，美國的項目沒有對ACE項目產生多大的影響，美國將存儲介質寄希望於光電攝像管，而圖靈則非常懷疑該方法的前景。They did not think of the American development as a rival; it was simply another project.
他並沒有把美國項目當成競爭對手，那僅僅是另外一個項目，The ACE was Alan Turing's own thing, like naval Enigma, like the Delilah. It was not, however, developing in quite the same way.
而ACE則是圖靈自己的項目，就像海軍謎機和黛麗拉一樣。
