Correspondence and related papers relating to MVW's friendship with Thomas Lyell Herdman
- Wilkes/II/B/19
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- 1987–2003 (1987 and 2003)
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence and related papers relating to MVW's friendship with Thomas Lyell Herdman
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence and some related papers on the history of computing
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Includes correspondence with Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Dalton; Eric A. Weiss; Sarah Payne; David Caminer; John Pinkerton; B. Jack Copeland, University of Canterbury; Alan Fairweather; Nicholas Enticknap, Editor of Resurrection; Alison Oswald, National Museum of American Hstory, Smithsonian Institute; Will Tracz; Henry Tropp; Bengt Dagas; Hans Bergfast; Janet Abbate, Rutgers University; Geoff Pollard, University of Portsmouth; Mary Croarken; Dave Patterson, Berkeley; Maria Theresa Muir, British Computer Society.
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with Nils Andersen and Peter Naur, DIKU.
Correspondence between MVW and Allan Bromley re Charles Babbage, with associated papers
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Also includes correspondence with Robin Glasscock, St John's College Cambridge; Mary Croarken; Hugh McGregor Ross; Charlotte F. Fischer, Vanderbilt University.
Correspondence on and other papers relating to Charles Babbage
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Includes correspondence with Angela Pacillo, University of Bari; Jim Roberts; Doron D. Swade, Science Museum; Sir Austin Robinson, Sidney Sussex College; Jenny Jardine, Cambridge University Development Office; Ole Immanuel Franksen, Technical University of Denmark Lyngby; E. F. Clark; Pierre E. Mounier-Kuhn, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers; Alan J. Clark, Deputy Librarian of the Royal Society; Philip C. Enros, Science Council of Canada; Robert Bolick, MIT Press; Douglas Fraser, Christ's College; Michael Lindgren, National Museum of Science and Technology Stockholm. Also includes list of Babbage portraits, reviews by Doron Swade of works on Babbage, papers relating to the launch of the Works of Charles Babbage, edited by Martin Campbell-Kelly, summary of a Babbage opera, a draft paper 'Babbage's expectations for the difference engine' by MVW, notes on archival collections and versions of Pray, Mr Babbage.
Correspondence on miscellaneous, mostly non-computing topics
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
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.
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
The topic was Babbage and his world. Includes correspondence with Stephen Cox, Executive Secretary of the Royal Society; Aosaf Afzal, Public Programme Officer; Nanette Blackwell, MVW's Secretary.
Correspondence re Charles Babbage's Cambridge career with Doron Swade and Brendan Bradshaw
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence relating to a visit to Groningen in Dec. 1977
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with Harry Whitfield, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen.