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Technical papers written for ICL and other companies. With accompanying correspondence.

The papers include 'Towards effective time-sharing: the next step' (18 Nov. 1968); 'A language for a pocket calculator', with a letter to Clive Sinclair, 17 Aug. 1972; 'Specification for multi-chip programmable calculator'; 'The computer design situation'; 'Memory protection'; 'The role of microprocessors in a computer configuration'; 'Reflections on the state of art in operating systems'; 'New range virtual storage'; 'The problem of pattern recognition'; 'An outline of CAFS'; 'Notes on the status of MULTICS in October 1970'; 'Some notes on paging and its objectives' (16 Feb. 1970); 'The computer design situation' (26 Aug. 1969); further reflections on the same, 23 Sep. 1969; 'The future trend of operating system research' (28 Apr. 1970); 'Specification for multi chip programmable calculator', by Phillip Pittman (June 1974); 'The long term future of the computer industry'; 'The computer industry' by C. Strachey, 9 June 1964; 'IBM virtual-storage operating systems'; correspondence with Dr John Pinkerton and Dr M. R. Patel of ICL.

Timetables, attendance lists, correspondence and other papers relating to a visit to the US

Visits in Oct. 1969 to Phoenix (SIGMICRO Symposium on Microprogramming), Los Alamos, Princeton (2nd SOSP), New York (IBM Systems Research Institute). Correspondence with Peter J. Denning, Princeton; R. J. Quigley, RCA; Ivan E. Sutherland, Evans and Sutherland computer Corporation; Elliott I. Organick, University of Houston; Nick Metropolis, Los Alamos; S. S. Husson, IBM; William M. Waite, University of Colorado; J. R. Douglas, On Line Computer Corp.

Timetables, presentations, bills, notes, correspondence and other papers relating to a visit to the US

Visits to Johns Hopkins University, Boston (Spring Joint Computer Conference, Extensible Languages Symposium, May), Poughkeepsie (IBM Large Systems Division) and Cambridge MA (Project MAC). Copies of UN General Assembly Resolution on international cooperation with a view to the use of computers and computation techniques for development, 1968, a presentation 'Straightening out programming languages', byR. W. Bemer, General Electric Company, May 1969, and synopses of Johns Hopkins' newly introduced Computer Science courses. Correspondence with Martin Greenberger, Johns Hopkins University; Robert H. Fano, MIT; Jim Greenwood, IBM; J. C. Licklider, MIT; Anthony G. Oettinger, Harvard; W. M. Waite, University of Colorado; Yaohan Chu, University of Maryland; S. Dorn, University of Denver.

Travel diaries kept by MVW

Diaries for trips to Germany US Occupied Zone, 1945; the USA, 1946; Germany UK and US Zones, 1948; Norway, 1948; the Netherlands, 1949; America, 1950; France and Switzerland, 1951; the Netherlands and Belgium, 1951; the USA, 1951; Canada and the USA, 1952; Scotland on holiday, 1955; America, 1956; Australia, 1957; India, 1977; the USA, 1978. .

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