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Correspondents Conway-Elvey, Nov 1965-Oct 1992

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MS. Landin 44
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Correspondents include:

  1. Melvin E Conway
  2. Donald F Cowell (=Closed)
  3. Professor D.C Cooper
  4. Dr B Courcelle
  5. R.J Cunningham (=Closed)
  6. Dr A Dubinsky (=Closed)
  7. Roy Edwards (=Closed)
  8. Owen Davies
  9. Calvin Elgort
  10. J.S.N Elvey.

Subjects include:

  1. ADAM (Automated Data Mangement) program operating system for the United States Air Force
  2. Landin's manuscript 'A Language-free Introduction to Programming' - a textbook version of his course on Programming early-mid 1980s
  3. recruitment of Dr J.S.N Elvey to the Oxford University Computing Laboratory Programming Research Group (=Closed)
  4. Dr J.S.N Elvey's unpublished draft of 'Information, Approximation and Mathematical Computation'
  5. research proposal for an Intelligence Knowledge-Based System out of Oxford and subject of mathematical taxonomy
  6. merger of the British Computer Society Algol Association
  7. biographical memoirs of Christopher Strachey
  8. artificial intelligence.

Also includes folder of letters marked 'Unanswered' with letters from the following correspondents:

  1. John Newsome Crossley
  2. Martin Campbell-Kelly
  3. Peter Clark, formerly of St John's College Oxford, relating to early exploration of artificial intelligence
  4. C A R (Tony) Hoare.

Dates

  • Creation: Nov 1965-Oct 1992

Extent

1 box (2 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Conditions Governing Access

Some material is closed.

Shelfmark

MS. Landin 44

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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