双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:水银延时线(33)
日期:2019-04-15 19:40

(单词翻译:单击)

These proposals were eminently practical, and indeed prophetic, foreseeing the need for flexible interaction between operator and machine.
图灵的这些想法很实际,也非常具有预见性,他预见了操作员与机器之间的灵活交互。
But of course he had already seen the future, in the use of the Colossus.
当他使用巨人机的时候,他就已经看到了这样的未来。
Another passage brought in the possibility of using remote terminals:
在报告的另一页,他谈到了远程终端的可能性:
...the ace will do the work of about 10,000 (human) computers.
一台ACE能够完成约10, 000个人工计算者的工作量,
It is to be expected therefore that large scale hand-computing will die out.
因此将会有大量的手工计算工作被它取代。
(Human) computers will still be employed on small calculations, such as the substitution of values in formulae,
人工计算者也许还能做些小规模的计算工作,比如替换算式中的数值,
but whenever a single calculation may be expected to take a (human) computer days of work, it will presumably be done by an electronic computer instead.
但即便是这样的工作,他们也要花上好几天时间才能完成。因此,小规模计算工作,最好也交给电子计算机。
This will not necessitate everyone interested in such work having an electronic computer.
这并不需要每个从事这类工作的人都拥有一台电子计算机,
It would be quite possible to arrange to control a distant computer by means of a telephone line.
通常情况下,他们可以通过电话线路来操纵一台远程计算机。
Special input and output machinery would be developed for use at these out-stations, and would cost a few hundred pounds at most.
这只需要开发一些特殊的输入输出终端,其成本最多也就几百英镑。
He also perceived the demand for computer programmers:
同时,图灵还考虑了对计算机编程人员的需求:
The main bulk of the work done by these computers will however consist of problems which could not have been tackled by hand computing because of the scale of the undertaking.
这些计算机器,将主要用于解决一些规模过大、手工计算无法完成的问题。
In order to supply the machine with these problems we shall need a great number of mathematicians of ability.
为了将这些问题输入机器,我们需要大量的数学人员,
These mathematicians will be needed in order to do the preliminary research on the problems, putting them into a form for computation. ...
由他们来对问题进行一些基本的处理,将其转换成可以由机器进行计算的形式。

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重点单词
  • arrangevt. 安排,整理,计划,改编(乐曲) vi. 协商,计
  • flexibleadj. 灵活的,易弯曲的,柔韧的,可变通的
  • scalen. 鳞,刻度,衡量,数值范围 v. 依比例决定,攀登
  • machineryn. (总称)机器,机械
  • propheticadj. 预言的,预示的;先知的
  • calculationn. 计算
  • interactionn. 相互作用,相互影响,互动交流
  • bulkn. 体积,容积,大批,大块,大部分 vt. 使成堆,使
  • controln. 克制,控制,管制,操作装置 vt. 控制,掌管,支
  • necessitatev. 使 ... 成为必需,迫使