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Schedules, seminar programmes, lecture notes, bills, correspondence, photographs and other papers relating to a visit in June and July 1971 to Australasia, Hong Kong and Iran

The lecture tour was made following an initial invitation by the Australian Computer Society. Correspondence with Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Arya-Mehr University of Technology, Tehran; R. W. Rutledge and P. R. Masters, Australian Computer Society; G. N. Lance, CSIRO; Robert Tih, HK Computer Society; J. M. Bennett, University of Sydney; B. A. M. Moon, University of Canterbury; D. C. Carpenter, ACS Western Australia Branch chairman; Roger Needham; A. J. Henley, NZ Computer Society; Rahim M. Irvani, Irvanco Tehran; R. Narasimhan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay; J. Boothroyd, University of Tasmania.

Technical memoranda by MVW on various topics

Includes papers titled 'PANGEA or What comes after ATM' (1997), 'Program profiling and related research' (1996), 'Investigation of systems based on point-to-point fibre links: road map' (1996), 'Primary and secondary caches', 'Computer security: a cultural and technical problem' (1988-9), 'Computer engineering versus computer science' (1989), 'Improving the human interface: a practical suggestion' (1986). Also includes message to Jim Donahue reflecting on message systems, 1986.

Technical notes on miscellaneous computing subjects

Includes comments on a draft monograph by Donald Michie, 1994; Titan instruction Set, 1984 and undated; developments in computer design; 'Back to the dark ages'; the ACRITH method for solving linear equations, 1985; J. H. Saltzer, 'Comments on the Standard Ethernet', 1980; 'Research in the computer industry', 1986; 'Simulated shared memory', 1986; 'Hoop-la', 1981; 'Logic with light valves', 1986 (annotated 'This is pure science fiction'); 'Optical computing', 1986 (annotated 'The true optical computer is years away'); cartoon 'Dicky Dec and the Micros', drawn for Gordon Bell.

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