雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(34)
And indeed he could foresee a new field of industry and employment:
It will be seen that the possibilities as to what one may do are immense.
該領域具有巨大的發展潛力，One of our difficulties will be the maintenance of an appropriate discipline, so that we do not lose track of what we are doing.
我們要解決的問題之一，就是要維持一些恰當的原則，以避免在前進的道路上迷失。
We shall need a number of efficient librarian types to keep us in order.
我們需要一種高效的、圖書館式的管理規範和標準，以形成井然有序的發展過程。Twenty years ahead of his time, in his conception of the organisation of a computer installation, he had drawn his picture from his experience at Bletchley.
實際上，圖靈在20年之前，就已經從布萊切利的經驗中，看到了這幅美好的計算機圖景。There they had likewise employed ten thousand human operators, and had worked as a system, involving remote out-stations, telephone communications, an elite who transformed the problems into programs, and plenty of 'librarian types'.
當時，他們僱用了一萬名操作人員和編程人員，擁有電話通信和遠程終端，並保證了充分的"圖書館式"管理，這些都結合在一起，作爲一個龐大的系統，井井有條地運轉着。But he could never say anything directly about it, and no one could picture what had never officially existed, so his analysis came as news from nowhere.
但是，圖靈從來都沒有直接提起過這些，也沒有任何其他人，提起過這從未存在過的一切，以至於圖靈的研究和分析，每每好似憑空而降。The ACE report was also the first account of the uses to which a universal computer could be put.
這份ACE報告，首次展示了通用計算機的用途。The ACE was to solve 'those problems which can be solved by human clerical labour, working to fixed rules, and without understanding', restricted by the size of the machine to cases where 'the amount of written material which need be kept at any one stage is limited to ...50 sheets of paper' and where 'the instructions to the operator' could be described in 'ordinary language within the space of an ordinary novel'.
ACE可以用來解決人類能夠解決的問題，它只需要按照特定的規則，而不需要"理解"這些問題。人們只需要把問題用"普通的人類語言"傳達給操作員，然後由操作員將其轉換成"不超過50頁紙"的機器指令。It would be able to do so in one hundred thousandth of the time taken by 'the human operator, doing his arithmetic without mechanical aid.'
機器計算所需的時間，只有人類計算者的十分之一。
