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Lot 172

WILKES, MAURICE, DOUGLAS HARTREE, et al.
"A Discussion on Computing Machines." Pp 265-287.

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WILKES, MAURICE, DOUGLAS HARTREE, et al.

"A Discussion on Computing Machines." Pp 265-287. IN: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. London: February, 1949. Vol 195.
8vo. Period library cloth. Library stamps to endpapers and prelims.

FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS OF AN ENGLISH COMPUTER CONFERENCE. The "discussion" took place at the Royal Society on March 4, 1948, "before an audience of two or three dozen people. It was the earliest conference on electronic digital computers held in England for which proceedings were published" (OOC). Published here are the papers of all 6 contributors:
1. HARTREE. "A Historical Survey of Digital Computing Machines."
2. NEWMAN. "General Principles of the Design of All-Purpose Computing Machines."
3. WILKES. "The Design of a Practical High-Speed Computing Machine. The EDSAC."
4. WILLIAMS. "A Cathode-Ray Tube Digit Store."
5. [TURING.] WILKINSON. "The Automatic Computing Engine at the National Physical Laboratory."
6. BOOTH. "Recent Computer Projects."
Origins of Cyberspace 650 (and lengthy entries for the individual articles, see 490, 651, 818, 933, 1018, and 1065).

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