- Wilkes/I/K/8
- File
- 1981–1984
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
MVW notes at one point: 'I don't see any difficulty in my agreeing an affidavit, although I seem to have entered a crazy world.'
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
MVW notes at one point: 'I don't see any difficulty in my agreeing an affidavit, although I seem to have entered a crazy world.'
Correspondence and other papers on miscellaneous biographical and personal topics
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Includes two versions of MVW's will; instructions on the event of his death; a card from colleagues at the Computer Laboratory oin MVW's ninetieth birthday; correspondence re possible deposit of his papers in the Churchill College archive; numerous requests for autographs from all over the world. Includes correspondence with Herbert Freeman; Joan M. Smith, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; Angus MacKinnon; David Barron; Mike Hally; Y. Hagimoto, NHK International Inc; Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Technische Universitat Munich; Nicholas Handy, University of Cambridge; Graham Farmelo; Stefan Petersson; Lise Gough, CU Computer Laboratory; Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems; Jeff Walden, BBC Written Archives Centre; Hugh McGregor Ross; David Caminer; William Lyons, Claude Lyons Ltd; Mary Croarken; Allan C. Jones, Open University; Charlotte F. Fischer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Bob Grimes, Cambridge and District Amateur Radio Club; Wendy Hall, University of Southampton; Sir Anthony Hoare, Microsoft; James Barr; Richard Samworth, St John's College; Frederick P. Brooks, UNC Chapel Hill; David Robertson, Technology Response; D. P. Charters, Investment Research; James Munro; Ross E. Dunn, San Diego State University; Georgina Ferry; Christopher Hipwell; Manfred Broy; K. K. Phua, World Scientific Publishing Co.; Peter Goddard, Master of St John's College Cambridge; Eric A. Weiss; Adrian Johnstone, Alan R. Davies and Larry Hurn, Royal Holloway; Robert Kahn, University of Cambridge; Sir Clive Sinclair; Donald E. Knuth, Stanford; Peter Woodsford, Laser-Scan; Edwin L. Harder; Stephen Snell; Anthony Ralston; Tony Sale, Computer Conservation Society; David Singmaster, South Bank University; Kevin Murray, AEA Technology; George R. Stibitz; Billy Klüver; Per-Erik Danielsson, Linköping University; Ole Franksen, Technical University of Denmark; Sophie White, Central Office of Information; Frank Nabarro, University of Witwatersrand; Keith Halden, BBC; Katsuhiko Noda, Graphtec Corp.; J. M. Bennett; R. Over, La Trobe University. PARTLY RESTRICTED, ENQUIRE AT ISSUE DESK
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with Stan Gill, PA International Management Consultants Ltd; and P. Bézier.
Correspondence and notes on the history of computing
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with Tony Sale, Computer Conservation Society; Per A. Holst, Stavanger College; Frank Nabarro, University of Witwatersrand; Martin Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick; E. M. J. Cummings, Letchworth Museums (enclosing information on DIGICO Computers); E. F. Clark; Svante Lindqvist; Roger Webster, University of Sheffield; Ivor Grattan-Guinness; Moshe Krieger, University of Ottawa; Pierre E. Mounier-Kuhn; Marie-José Durand; Lennart Lindberg, Stockholm royal Institute of Technology; Frank Smithies; the Earl of Halsbury; M. S. Dean, Historical Radar Archive; E. Knobloch, Technische Universitat Berlin; R. I. P. Bulkeley; W. S. Elliott; Donald W. Willis; Doron D. Swade, Science Museum; R. J. Bishop, CADCentre Ltd; Geoffrey Tweedale, National Archive for the History of Computing. With a stray photograph showing MVW, Goldstein and Zuse, Vienna 1972.
Correspondence and notes on computer graphics relating in Dec. 1969 to visits to Grenoble and Aarhus
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with Brian H. Mayoh and B. Svejgaard, University of Aarhus.
Correspondence and itinerary relating to a visit in Mar. 1980 to Warsaw and Cracow
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with Maria Jezowa and Wlad Turski, University of Warsaw; C. M. P. Johnson, St John's College; Franciszek Studnicki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Krakow; Romuald Marczynski, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Includes correspondence with Frank Smithies, St John's College; Jeannine B. Alton, Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, Oxford; O. L. Zangwill, University of Cambridge; Brian Pippard, Cavendish Laboratory; H. A. H. Boot; Stewart Gillmor, Mullard Observatory; Colin Hines, University of Toronto; Arthur L. Norberg, University of California, Berkeley; Roland Lees and A. C. Baynham, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Great Malvern. Copy of Arthur L. Norberg, 'The History of Science and Technology Project, the Bancroft Library: fourth annual report 1976-77' as well as a summary report 1973-6.
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with M. Anvari, D. Omrani and F. S. Etessami, School of Planning and Computer Applications Tehran.
Correspondence and associated papers relating to WISP
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
With a later photograph c. 1999 of MVW with (?) Lynn Conway. Includes correspondence with J. Morven Wilson and Vijay K. Gupta, University of St Andrews; J. H. Levin, Honeywell Inc.; N. Solntseff, University of New South Wales; Michael J. R. Shave, University of Bristol; G. K. Manacher, University of Chicago; William M. Waite, University of Colorado; David W. Barron, University of Southampton; M. H. Rogers, University of Bristol; Michael Thompson, English Electric Co. Ltd; Richard J. Orgass, General Electric Co. / Yale; Denis Manelski, Shell Oil Co.; H. Schorr, IBM; C. J. W.Mason; Richard Goodman, Editor of the Annual Review in Automatic Programming; B. Elliott and H. Lipps, CERN; J. D. Blake; J. S. Biggs; Hugh G. ApSimon, IBM; N. E. Wiseman. WISP was originally envisaged by MVW as a student exercise, and was then used to implement an EDSAC2 autocode compiler.
Correspondence and associated papers relating to MVW's work on the history of modern computers
Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes
Correspondence with John W. Mauchly, 1967, re the evolution of the stored-program concept; Sam Fuller re the influence of Project Whirlwind on microprogramming; Walter F. Bauer, Informatics Inc.; Brian Randell, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Stanley Gill, PA Management Consultants Ltd; Jane M. Pugh, Science Museum; J. E. Larter, Scientific Periodicals Library Cambridge; David Rees, University of Exeter; B. S. Swann, PSI London; B. E. Carpenter, Massey University, Palmerston North NZ (in his reply MVW gives his candid opinion of Turing); Tom Gold, Cornell University; Stephen J. Bacon, ICL; John Pinkerton, ICL; Arthur W. Burks, University of Michigan; J. H. Wilkinson, National Physical Laboratory; Donald E. Knuth, Stanford; Tom Kilburn, University of Manchester; Jack Minker, University of Maryland; S. H. Lavington, University of Manchester; Peter Naur (enclosing draft paper 'Impressions of the early days of programming'); Andrzej Blikle, Polish Academy of Sciences; C. A. R. Hoare, Oxford Programming Research Group; Nick Metropolis, Los Alamos; Samuel H. Fuller, Carnegie Mellon University.