Contains: Comment on Genie. An Intermediate Range Assembly System, 20 July 1960 [9]. Report on Chorofas: 'Advanced Programming Systems', 12 October 1960 [10]. Letter to the Editor, New Scientist, on 'Computers and Decision Making', 16 February 1960 [11]. Review for Computing Reviews, 20 July 1960...

'An expression for the Sine of a Fourier Series', by C. Strachey and P.J. Wallis, Phil. Mag. Ser.7, xxxvii, February 1946. Offprint. Acknowledges permission to publish from Standard Telephones and Cables Limited.

'Hahn's Functions Sm(α) and Um(α)', by C. Strachey and P.J. Wallis, Phil. Mag. Ser.7, xxxvii, February 1946. Offprint. Acknowledges permission to publish from Standard Telephones and Cables Limited.

'The "Thinking" Machine', Encounter, III Photocopy of published article.

The Institution of Electrical Engineers, Measurement and Control Section: Specialist discussion meetings on new digital computer technique, 16-17 February 1959. Proc. I.E.E., 106, Part B, no. 29, September 1959. Contains Strachey's paper 'Programme-controlled time sharing', his opening remarks to Discussion on 'Special aspects of logical design - I' and various contributions to discussions at other sessions. Offprint.

'"Elimination" methods in matrix eigenvalue problems', by Strachey and J.G.F. Francis Duplicated typescript.

'Time sharing in large fast computers'. Typescript abstract, and 2 typescript versions of a paper read at the UNESCO Conference on Information Processing, Paris, July 1959. Strachey describes the paper as follows: "'Time Sharing in Large Fast Computers' was probably the first paper to discuss time-sharing and multi-programming as we now know them. It is a matter of history that the time-sharing idea became extremely fashionable in the middle sixties and dominated much...

'On Taking the Square Root of a Complex Number', The Computer Journal, 2. Offprint.

Paper on 'learning programmes'. Two drafts (not identical), dated April 1960, of comments and discussion by Strachey on ideas for self-organising programmes by Mr. Maine and Dr. Ross Ashby.

'Initial Definition of Interpreted Functions'. Two drafts, variously dated October and November 1960 (perhaps related to work on List Processing Language).

'Two Contributions to the Techniques of Queuing Problems', The Computer Journal, 3, July 1960. Manuscript draft, correspondence with editors and colleagues regarding the paper, revisions and corrections, corrected proof, offprint of published paper.

'The Characteristics of Computers of the Second Decade', discussion meeting of the British Computer Society, held at Northampton College, September 1960. The Computer Bulletin, March 1961. Strachey opened the first general discussion session, and made several contributions to the discussion. Offprint of proceedings.

'The Reduction of a Matrix to Codiagonal Form by Eliminations', by Strachey and J.G.F. Francis, The Computer Journal, 4, July 1961. Manuscript drafts of paper, correspondence with editor, offprint of published paper.

Notes, routines and printouts, some with notes and comments by M.V. Wilkes, various dates April 1961. Typescript of paper on 'Real Roots of an Unsymmetric Matrix', 5 pages, March 1961. Based on program outlined in MS. Eng. misc. b. 289/F.12.

Includes: Codiagonalisation Derivative Form Real Roots Five bundles and loose papers of notes and routines on above topics, various dates, March-April 1961. Includes correspondence from M.V. Wilkes expressing satisfaction with the use of ALGOL for these problems. Based on program outlined in MS. Eng. misc. b....

'Some proposals for improving the efficiency of ALGOL 60' (with M.V. Wilkes), Communications of the ACM. Miscellaneous manuscript plans and drafts for paper, including comments by P.J. Landin, various dates June-July 1961. First published as Technical Memorandum 61/5, 29 July 1961, University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge. A copy of Technical Memorandum 61/5 is included here.

'Some proposals for improving the efficiency of ALGOL 60' (with M.V. Wilkes), Communications of the ACM. Correspondence with collaborator, colleagues and editors regarding publication of the paper and reactions to it. May 1961-February 1962. First published as Technical Memorandum 61/5, 29 July 1961, University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge. An offprint of the published paper is included here.

Contains: Copy of The Times Supplement on Computers in Commerce, 4 October 1960 [15]. Review by Strachey of Annual Review in Automatic Programming, ed. R. Goodman. (Contains the papers presented at the Brighton Conference, April 1961, see MS. Eng. misc. b. 285/E.2), several drafts and versions, January 1961 [16]. ...

Contains: Review of C.V.L. Smith, Electronic Digital Computers, for Computing Reviews, 11 July 1961 [22]. Review of J.E. Whitesitt, Boolean Algebra and its Applications, for Computing Reviews, 11 July 1961 [23]. Review of The Logical Design of...

Correspondence with editors regarding Strachey's contributions to Computing Reviews and Communications of the A.C.M. Includes reviews and reports by Strachey, various dates 1960-1962, 1966, 1973-1974.