File 12 - Correspondence and associated papers relating to miscellaneous articles published by MVW

Copies of most of the articles are held elsewhere in the collection. Includes correspondence with G. Parr, Editor of Electrical Engineering, 1946-8; B. M. Adkins, Editor of the Royal Naval Scientific Service Journal, 1948-50; R. J. L. Kingsford, Secretary of CUP, 1948; H. R. Lang, Editor of the Journal of Scientific Instruments, 1949; the Editors of Nature, 1949; Edith Norris and others, MTAC, 1949-55; J, Dunford Smith, Editor of Distribution of Electricity, 1949; the Editors of the Cambridge Review, 1949; W. O. Skeat, Editor of British Science News, 1949; P. E. Morgan, Editor of British Science News, 1950; B. V. Bowden of Ferranti Ltd, 1951; H. Wilson Harris, Editor, and Brian Inglis, Associate Editor of The Spectator, 1951-5; A. M. Turing, 1953 seeking permission to refer to his article in Mind; William E. Dick, Editor of Discovery, 1952-3; Claude Shannon and John McCarthy, Editors of Automata Studies, 1953; E. K. Gannett, Editor of Proceedings of the IRE, 1953; Irving Kristol, Editor of Encounter, 1955; the Editors of Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1956; the Editors of Mathematical Tables, 1957; R. H. Macmillan, University College of Swansea, 1959-60; E. G. Semler, Editor of Automation Progress, 1960; Harold Nockolds and L. H. Leslie-Smith, The Times, 1960; R. R. O. Skelton, Assistant Editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1960; Pearce G. Wright, Electronics Weekly, 1960; Louis Fein, 1957. Drafts/proofs of papers 'Can Machines Think?', 'A note on the use of automatic adjustment of strip width in quadrature', 'Mechanical translation', 'The Edsac', 'Solution of linear, algebraic and differential equations by the long division algorithm', 'Should computer services be centralised or decentralised?', 'Early electronic computer development in Britain', 'Data transmission', 'Self-repairing computers'.