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Box 606733932

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Contains 18 Results:

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Study Group on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (A is B), 1966-1969

Correspondence, including some correspondence on CPL. Strachey resigned from the Committee in June 1969.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.15
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1966-1969
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Joint Mathematical Council, 1974

Strachey succeeded M.V. Wilkes as B.C.S. representative on the Council from July 1974. Brief correspondence regarding appointment. Background material regarding the Council.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.16
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1974
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British Computer Society (B.C.S.), 1961-1970

Miscellaneous reports by Strachey on manuscripts submitted for publication in The Computer Journal.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.17
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1961-1970
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British Computer Society (B.C.S.), 1960-1967

Miscellaneous reviews by Strachey for The Computer Journal and The Computer Bulletin.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.18
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1960-1967
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British Computer Society (B.C.S.), 1965

Miscellaneous correspondence arising from publications by Strachey in The Computer Journal, especially regarding 'An Impossible Program' published as a letter to the Editor, January 1965.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.19
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1965
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British Computer Society (B.C.S.), 1957-1973

Invitations to lecture to various B.C.S. groups and branches.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.20
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1957-1973
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British Standards Institution Panel on Punched Tape Coding, Jul 1959-Sep 1960

Committee papers, drafts of British Standard for Codes for Punched Tapes, with comments by Strachey and C.R. Merton, N.R.D.C., and others. Strachey's manuscript notes.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.21
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Jul 1959-Sep 1960
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D.S.I.R., 1961-1962

Preliminary correspondence and papers. Includes invitation to meeting, copies of proposal by D.L.J. Perkins (June 1961) and subsequent correspondence, list of those invited to meeting on 31 July 1962, and a note of its decisions.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.22
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1961-1962
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D.S.I.R., Aug 1962-May 1963

Correspondence regarding Strachey's appointment 'to act as consultant and expert adviser' to the Working Party, conditions of appointment, and termination of agreement with effect from 1 April 1963.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.23
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Aug 1962-May 1963
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D.S.I.R., 1962-1964

Correspondence regarding Strachey's paper on 'Computers and University Research', written 26 June 1962, which was circulated to the Working Party and appeared as Appendix II of its final report, April 1964. A copy of the paper is included.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.24
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1962-1964
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D.S.I.R., 23 Oct 1962

Papers for a Working Party meeting.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.25
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 23 Oct 1962
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D.S.I.R., 1963

Papers for Working Party meeting 26 January 1963. Paper 8 is Strachey's 'Report on computer science in the U.S.A.', Paper 9 is his 'Report on computer science in the U.K.', Paper 11 is a memorandum from M.V. Wilkes and Strachey.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.26
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1963
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D.S.I.R., 1963

Papers for Working Party meeting 26 March 1963. Paper 14 is Strachey's 'Note on Present Position', Paper 15 is the report on his enquiry on 'Current Computer Research in England', Paper 16 is a Memorandum by Strachey 'in my private capacity'.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.27
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1963
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D.S.I.R., 1964

Minutes of meetings. Drafts of final report, April 1964, which recommended support for Wilkes's and Strachey's proposals for a research group at Cambridge. Letter of thanks for participation.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.28
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1964
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D.S.I.R., 1963

Material collected by Strachey for his enquiry into current research. In February 1963 Strachey circularised numerous universities and researchers who made 'unusual' uses of computers in their work. He sent out 63 queries which elicited 35 replies by 15 March (the date on which he prepared the report); several replies were received subsequent to that date. The folder includes a copy of Strachey's original letter, a list of those circularised, Strachey's manuscript…
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.29
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1963
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D.S.I.R., 1962-1963

Manuscript notes by Strachey on visits to research projects in UK, for memoranda for the Working Party. Includes photocopies of letters sent to D.M. MacKay from workers in various UK universities, passed on to Strachey for information.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.30
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1962-1963
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D.S.I.R., 1962-1963

Miscellaneous correspondence on visits by Strachey, research projects in UK and overseas, etc. Brief routine correspondence regarding Working Party.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.31
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1962-1963
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D.S.I.R. - Research Grants Committee, 1963-1965

Strachey was appointed to the newly-constituted Computing Science Sub-committee of the above in October 1963. The Chairman was Lord Halsbury. Letter of appointment and brief correspondence regarding the first meeting of the Sub-committee on 18 November 1963. Committee papers on support for computer research, heavily annotated by Strachey, who describes one as 'a quite deplorable paper calculated to put irrelevant bureaucratic difficulties in the way of anyone trying…
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 286/E.32
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1963-1965