Digital Computer and Control Engineering by Robet S. Ledley (1960-08-01)

McGraw, 1960. 830 pages. Good. Dust jacket. Former owner's name on inside front board. No other marks. A pioneering volume in the notable McGraw-Hill Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series. Robert Steven Ledley (1926 ââ?¬â?? 2012), professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine. In 1960 he established the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), a non-profit research organization dedicated to promoting the use of computers and electronic equipment in biomedical research. At the NBRF Ledley pursued several major projects: the early 1960s development of the Film Input to Digital Automatic Computer (FIDAC), which automated the analysis of chromosomes; the invention of the Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial (ACTA) whole-body CT scanner in the mid-1970s (wiki).