St John‘s College Personal Collections

Notes and papers relating to cryotrons, involving Dudley Buck and A. D. Little Inc.

Wilkes/I/K/35
File
1958–1963

Notes and papers on lunar harmonic analysis, including copy of MVW, 'The solar and luni-solar harmonic components of geomagnetic variation at San Fernando', Journal of atmospheric and terrestrial physics (1962) and several EDSAC programme sheets

Wilkes/I/K/17
File
1955–1962

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Notes and other papers relating to MVW's various historical interests

Wilkes/II/B/6a
File
(Various dates)

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Notes and offprints re 'Babbage's expectations for the Difference Engine

Wilkes/II/K/13
File
1985–1991

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes correspondence with Robin E. Esch.

Notes and correspondence relating to the development of the Cambridge honours curriculum in the early nineteenth century

Wilkes/II/K/12
File
1971–1990

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Much of it in some way preliminary to MVW's article 'Herschel, Peacock, Babbage and the development of the Cambridge curriculum', Notes and Records of the Royal Society 44 (1990).

Notes and correspondence on Babbage 'odds and ends'

Wilkes/II/K/7
File
1970–1980 (Circa.)

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes a letter from K. A. Knell, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

MVW's 'outline diary' of events in his life between 1934 and 1953, put together in the early 1980s

Wilkes/II/M/1
File
1983 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

MVW's office and appointments diaries

Wilkes/II/Z/3
File
1946–1980

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

MS notes for a lecture course on elementary statistics, taken by candidates in whole-subject Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Tripos

Wilkes/I/A/6
File
1955 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Miscellaneous reports and papers by MVW

Wilkes/I/K/19
File
1958–1970 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes a report on a UNESCO conference; 'The design of a symbol-interpretation language intended for implementation in hardware'; 'Magnetic tape regarded as a data transmission medium'; 'A system of data organisation for a general-purpose programming language'; 'Professional computer assistance in research groups'; 'Training of programmers and numerical analysts in the United Kingdom'; 'A test problem for systems of computer-aided mathematics'; 'Digital computers in control'; 'Digital computers: what they are and why they are important in management'; 'WISP as an outer programming language'.

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