雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(74)
On 10 April he wrote again to say that Stibitz had shown him 'the principle and working of his relay counting mechanisms'.
On 14 April he wrote to R. Peierls at Los AlaMos about the 'shock decay problem', saying that it could probably be mechanised, and adding that he was now also in touch with Aiken.
4月14日，他給洛斯阿拉莫斯實驗室的R.佩爾斯寫信，內容關於將衝擊衰減的計算過程機械化，並且還提到他與艾肯也取得了聯繫。In July 1944 there were negotiations to use the Harvard-IBM machine. But then everything changed.
1944年7月，他們對於使用哈佛-IBM機進行了磋商。
For the pressure of wartime demands had brought about the same technological revolution as had happened at Bletchley, and at exactly the same time.
但就在這之後，一切都變了。因爲戰爭的壓力，他們需要布萊切利那樣的技術革新。In quite another place, namely the engineering department of the University of Pennsylvania (the Moore School), work had begun on yet another large calculator in April 1943.
在另一個地方，也就是賓夕法尼亞大學莫爾學院，於1943年4月開展了另一個大型計算機項目。This was the ENIAC—the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator.
這就是ENIAC——電子數字積分式計算機。The new machine was designed by the electronic engineers J.P. Eckert and J. Mauchly,
這臺新機器，是由電子工程師J.P.埃克特和J.莫切利設計的。although von Neumann's first knowledge of it, apparently something of an accident, came through talking on a railroad station with H.H. Goldstine, a mathematician associated with the project.
馮·諾伊曼第一次聽說這臺機器，完全是出於意外，他是在火車站與H.H.戈爾斯坦閒談時得知的，戈爾斯坦正是ENIAC項目的參與者。Von Neumann seized upon the possibilities opened up by a machine that when built would perform arithmetical operations a thousand times faster than Aiken's.
馮·諾伊曼立刻看到了這臺機器的前景，它一旦建成，就會帶來比艾肯的機器快1000倍的運算速度。From August 1944 he was regularly attending ENIAC team meetings, writing on 1 November 1944 to Weaver:
從1944年8月開始，馮·諾伊曼定期地參加ENIAC項目組的會議。1944年11月1日，他給韋弗寫信：There are some other things, mostly connected with mechanised computation, which I should like a chance to talk to you about.
我希望和你談談另外一些關於機械計算的問題。I am exceedingly obliged to you for having put me in contact with several workers in this field, especially with Aiken and Stibitz.
我非常感謝你幫助我與該領域的工作者取得聯繫，特別是和艾肯和斯蒂比茲。In the meantime I have had a very extensive exchange of views with Aiken, and still more with the group at the Moore School... who are now in the process of planning a second electronic machine.
我與艾肯進行了大量的交流，並和莫爾學校的項目組進行了更多的交流……他們現在正在研製另一臺電子機器。I have been asked to act as their adviser, mainly on the matters connected with logical control, memory, etc.
他們邀請我擔任顧問，主要是負責邏輯控制和存儲方面的問題。
