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THE EARLY BRITISH COMPUTER CONFERENCES. 1. Report of a Conference on High Speed Automatic Calculating-Machines 22-25 June 1949.
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THE EARLY BRITISH COMPUTER CONFERENCES.
1. Report of a Conference on High Speed Automatic Calculating-Machines 22-25 June 1949. Cambridge: University Mathematical Laboratory with the Co-operation of the Ministry of Supply, January 1950. Folio. Near-contemporary library binding.
WITH: Mimeographed 8-page list of conference attendees laid in, annotated.
Provenance: A. Walther of Darmstadt Hochschule (ownership inscription to attendee list, some annotations).
2. Manchester University Computer. Inaugural Conference. July, 1951. [Manchester: 1951.] 4to. Original wrappers (tape label removed from spine).
3. Automatic Digital Computation. Proceedings of a symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory on March 25 ... 28, 1953. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1956. 2d Edition. 4to. Original wrappers (sunned).
Provenance: Mathematisches Institut Darmstadt (library marks to first 2 titles).
FIRST EDITION OF THE PROCEEDINGS FROM THE FIRST COMPUTER CONFERENCE IN WHICH A STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTER ACTUALLY OPERATED, TOGETHER WITH PROCEEDINGS FROM THE SECOND AND THIRD MAJOR BRITISH COMPUTING CONFERENCES. The 1949 Cambridge conference was organized by Maurice Wilkes and occurred just a few weeks after EDSAC became fully operational. On Wednesday, June 22, the first day of the conference, EDSAC was demonstrated before an audience of over 100 people. "For the demonstration two short programs were run: the first, written by Wilkes, printed a table of squares; the second, written by David Wheeler, printed out prime numbers. David Wheeler ... also gave a paper later in the conference on organizing the program library for EDSAC; this paper is interesting because it shows an early stage in the evolution of the EDSAC programming system that was later to be described in the classic textbook The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer" (Williams & Campbell-Kelly xiii). Others papers included those by TURING, Couffignal, and Newman.
"The Manchester University Conference was held to inaugurate the Ferranti Mark I computer. The machine had been delivered to the University in February 1951 and by the time of the conference it was at the center of a flourishing computer laboratory. The Ferranti Mark I was the first commercially manufactured computer in Britain (and arguably in the world). To commemorate the event Ferranti underwrote the cost of the slim but elegant conference proceedings ... The Mark I itself was described by F.C. Williams, and the corresponding paper in the proceedings, which is superbly illustrated, is the best single account of the Ferranti Mark I computer" (ibid).
Cambridge, Manchester and Teddington (near London) were the three major centers for early British computing. Origins of Cyberspace 1019, 744 (this copy); and 807 (1st ed). See also the Babbage Institute reprint of these conferences, 1989, with introduction by Michael Williams and Martin Campbell-Kelly (a copy of which is included with this lot).
WITH: Mimeographed 8-page list of conference attendees laid in, annotated.
Provenance: A. Walther of Darmstadt Hochschule (ownership inscription to attendee list, some annotations).
2. Manchester University Computer. Inaugural Conference. July, 1951. [Manchester: 1951.] 4to. Original wrappers (tape label removed from spine).
3. Automatic Digital Computation. Proceedings of a symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory on March 25 ... 28, 1953. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1956. 2d Edition. 4to. Original wrappers (sunned).
Provenance: Mathematisches Institut Darmstadt (library marks to first 2 titles).
FIRST EDITION OF THE PROCEEDINGS FROM THE FIRST COMPUTER CONFERENCE IN WHICH A STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTER ACTUALLY OPERATED, TOGETHER WITH PROCEEDINGS FROM THE SECOND AND THIRD MAJOR BRITISH COMPUTING CONFERENCES. The 1949 Cambridge conference was organized by Maurice Wilkes and occurred just a few weeks after EDSAC became fully operational. On Wednesday, June 22, the first day of the conference, EDSAC was demonstrated before an audience of over 100 people. "For the demonstration two short programs were run: the first, written by Wilkes, printed a table of squares; the second, written by David Wheeler, printed out prime numbers. David Wheeler ... also gave a paper later in the conference on organizing the program library for EDSAC; this paper is interesting because it shows an early stage in the evolution of the EDSAC programming system that was later to be described in the classic textbook The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer" (Williams & Campbell-Kelly xiii). Others papers included those by TURING, Couffignal, and Newman.
"The Manchester University Conference was held to inaugurate the Ferranti Mark I computer. The machine had been delivered to the University in February 1951 and by the time of the conference it was at the center of a flourishing computer laboratory. The Ferranti Mark I was the first commercially manufactured computer in Britain (and arguably in the world). To commemorate the event Ferranti underwrote the cost of the slim but elegant conference proceedings ... The Mark I itself was described by F.C. Williams, and the corresponding paper in the proceedings, which is superbly illustrated, is the best single account of the Ferranti Mark I computer" (ibid).
Cambridge, Manchester and Teddington (near London) were the three major centers for early British computing. Origins of Cyberspace 1019, 744 (this copy); and 807 (1st ed). See also the Babbage Institute reprint of these conferences, 1989, with introduction by Michael Williams and Martin Campbell-Kelly (a copy of which is included with this lot).