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Box 606733946

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Contains 34 Results:

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Home Office-I.B.M., 1964-1975

Home Office (classification of fingerprints) 1964 Institute of Contemporary Arts (Computer Art) 1966 International Business Machines 1965-1975
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.21
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1964-1975
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Joseph-Levinstone, 1959-1974

Joseph, Sir Keith 1959 Knuth, D.E. (history of 'time-sharing') 1974 (Includes a copy of a letter on Strachey's terminology 1968) Landin, P.J. (Strachey's carbons only) 1965 Laski, J.G. (mathematical semantics and Adams Prize work) 1974 Levinstone, A. (CPL) 1966-1967
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.22
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1959-1974
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Lighthill, 1972-1973

Lighthill, Sir (Michael) James (regarding Lighthill's enquiry into current research into Artificial Intelligence). Includes also a brief correspondence with the producer of the BBC TV 'Controversy' programme on the Lighthill report, at the Royal Institution, July 1973, which Strachey attended, regarding a correction to be made following advice from J. McCarthy.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.23
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1972-1973
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Lindop-Madge, 1963-1967

Lindop, N. 1967 Maddison, R.N. (macrogenerator) 1967 Madge, J. (computers for hospitals) 1963
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.24
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1963-1967
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Michie, 1962-1973

Michie, D. (general scientific correspondence, including the difficulty of funding artificial intelligence research, references to the A is B Committee, and Machine Intelligence Workshops at Edinburgh, etc.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.25
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1962-1973
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Milner, n.d., 1971, 1973

Milner, Robin (mainly CPL and logic for computer functions)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.26
Extents: 1 file
Dates: n.d., 1971, 1973
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National Research Development Corporation, 1956-1959

Blackett, P.M.S. (Stretch) 1959 British Transport Commission (check digits) 1959 Brooker, R.A. (matrices) 1958 Elliott Brothers (Bull Printer code) 1956 E.M.I. 1957 Ferranti 1957-1958 Greig, W.A. 1959 I.C.I. 1957
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.27
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1956-1959
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National Research Development Corporation, 1958-1959

Remington Rand 1958 Rose (Fast adder & multiplier) 1958, 1959 Siemens project 1958 Silver City Airways 1958 Miscellaneous internal memoranda.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.28
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1958-1959
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National Science Foundation, 1960-1967

Strachey's description of his work in progress 1960-1961 for Current Research & Development in Scientific Documentation Needham, R. (research in computer science) 1966 Nygaard, K. (Simula 67) 1967
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.29
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1960-1967
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Playfair, 1961-1964

Playfair, Sir Edward Includes a draft of the speech to be given by Playfair at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference in Philadelphia, with Strachey's annotations and comments.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.30
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1961-1964
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Rees-Riding, 1965-1973

Rees, D.H. (closing down of Elliott NRDC 401) 1965 Rego, F.A. (mathematical foundations of programming) 1972 Riding, G. (ALGOL) 1973
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.31
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1965-1973
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Martin Richards, Dec 1965-Mar 1966

Includes Strachey's offer to Richards of a post and his outline of projects for the Programming Research Group, and letters by Richards on CPL work at Cambridge, England. This correspondence, which is almost entirely technical, deals with CPL (and manual), BCPL, KDF9 and general matters relating to the setting up of Strachey's Programming Research Group at Oxford. During the period of the correspondence, either Strachey or Richards was at Project MAC, Massachusetts Institute of…
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.32
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Dec 1965-Mar 1966
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Martin Richards, 1966-1974

On CPL, BCPL, KDF9, written while Strachey was in Oxford and Richards in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one letter 1974.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.33
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1966-1974
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Samuel-Schwarz, 1957-1967

Samuel, A.L. (Strachey's own projects, and current state of computer activities in UK) 1957 Saville, N.R. (macrogenerator) 1967 Schwarz, H.R. (ALGOL as a standard language) 1961
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 300/J.34
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1957-1967