File 6 - Correspondence on miscellaneous, mostly non-computing topics

Correspondence with successive Directors of the Fitzwilliam Museum re the portrait there attributed to Rembrandt; Monty Phister re the 'there will never be more than X computers' story; Constantine B. Simonides, MIT, confirming MVW's appointment as an unpaid adjunct professor (and subsequently 'visiting engineer') from Sep. 1981; C. A. R. Hoare, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Lockwood Morris, Syracuse University and C. B. Jones, Department of Computer Science re Turing and loop invariants; John Bennett, University of Sydney; officials at the University of Bath re MVW's honorary degree, 1987; Jack Ratcliffe; Jeremy Webb, BBC; 'Berthe' or Bertha [?Jeffreys]; Betty Organick; John Hendry, London Business School; Matthew Bullock, Barclay's Bank; Charles Bashe, IBM; Bruce D. Shriver, IEEE Software; Donald Christiansen, IEEE Spectrum; Robert L. Weber, re publishing the H. W. O. Petard skit; John Coales; Nigel Calder re a book on predictions; Leonard Corman; C. Stewart Gillmore, Wesleyan University; E. M. Bettenson, University of Newcastle, re the conferment of an honorary degree . With Nina Wilkes's reflections on returning to the UK in 1986, and a presentation programme for the 1981 IEEE Wallace McDowell Award.