File 13 - Correspondence and associated papers relating to miscellaneous articles published by MVW

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Wilkes/I/D/13

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GB 275 Wilkes/I/D/13

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Correspondence and associated papers relating to miscellaneous articles published by MVW

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  • 1961–1967 (Creation)

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c. 210pp. paper

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Copies of some articles are held elsewhere in the collection. Includes correspondence with R. R. O. Skelton, Assistant Editor of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1961-5; the Editors of Nature, 1961; P. J. R. Harding, The Times, 1961; Howard E. Tomkins, Editor of IRE Transactions, 1961; Arthur A. Welch, Staff Editor at the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 1961; Nigel Calder, Science Editor and later Editor of New Scientist, 1961-5; D. Fairs, Sub-editor at Heywood and Co., 1961; Alan J. Perlis, Editor of the Communications of the ACM, 1961; Evan Herbert, Associate Editor of International Science and Technology, 1961; N. D. Watts, Editor of Process Control and Automation, 1961; C. Warner, Secretary to the Awards Committee of the Electronic Engineering Association, 1962; J. L. Short, Senior Sub-Editor of Pergamon Press, publishers of the Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 1962; R. M. Fano; Norman R. Scott, Editor of Transactions on Electronic Computers, 1965; Roger Neetham, Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, Information and Control, 1965-6; David Drummond, Head of Editorial Services at Esso, 1966-7. Drafts/proofs of papers 'Numerical analysis' (for Chambers's), 'A world dominated by computers?' (for New Scientist), 'The digital computer in the drawing office', 'Constraint-type statements in programming languages' (for Communications of the ACM), 'the coming of multiple-access computers' (for the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society), 'The World in the 1990s' (by Lord Ritchie-Calder for the Esso volume), 'The computer outlook in the 1990s' (for the Esso volume), 'The computer revolution'.

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