Correspondents Conway-Elvey, Nov 1965-Oct 1992
File
MS. Landin 44
Held in our offsite storage facility
Correspondents include:
- Melvin E Conway
- Donald F Cowell (=Closed)
- Professor D.C Cooper
- Dr B Courcelle
- R.J Cunningham (=Closed)
- Dr A Dubinsky (=Closed)
- Roy Edwards (=Closed)
- Owen Davies
- Calvin Elgort
- J.S.N Elvey.
Subjects include:
- ADAM (Automated Data Mangement) program operating system for the United States Air Force
- Landin's manuscript 'A Language-free Introduction to Programming' - a textbook version of his course on Programming early-mid 1980s
- recruitment of Dr J.S.N Elvey to the Oxford University Computing Laboratory Programming Research Group (=Closed)
- Dr J.S.N Elvey's unpublished draft of 'Information, Approximation and Mathematical Computation'
- research proposal for an Intelligence Knowledge-Based System out of Oxford and subject of mathematical taxonomy
- merger of the British Computer Society Algol Association
- biographical memoirs of Christopher Strachey
- artificial intelligence.
Also includes folder of letters marked 'Unanswered' with letters from the following correspondents:
- John Newsome Crossley
- Martin Campbell-Kelly
- Peter Clark, formerly of St John's College Oxford, relating to early exploration of artificial intelligence
- 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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Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk