J N P Hume (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 3, Ser 4, Sec 3, pp. 293-300, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. pictorial cover, corners sharp, binding strong, pages clean and unmarked. You will notice that my book descriptions are not generic, saying "may have." certain conditions. All descriptions are written with actual book in hand.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Minor edgewear and creasing of spine and covers, interior fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.11.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.11.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.11.

paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ormond Papers: Volume 2, 1968. Essays from Ormond College (Melbourne University). Anthology with several contributors, including Loane Skene, R.F.W. Moulds, M.R. Edwards, S. Ricketson, G.A. Gall, W.S. Etheridge, & A.J. Clarke. Edited by M.R. Edwards & P.N.J. Hume. Contains articles & reviews by students & professors which, as noted in a later issue, "reflects the diversity and the quality of academic pursuits at Ormond College". With printed notes. Printed in Australia. Slight handling wear, small stain to lower margin of early pages, former owner's neat ink name to half-title page, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 80pp. Uncommon. SB-2.

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good with clean pages. Prior owner's name written in ink on inner front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Brown, N.A.; Hume, J.R.; Newman, P.; Finnie, Mike; Lee, U.; Roberts, M. (illustrator). First Edition. 2008. 96pp. B&W frontispiece. B&W illustrations. "Doocots of Scotland: Highland, Orkney and Shetland is the third in a series of regional guides devoted to doocots prepared and published by the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group. Moray by N.A. Brown appeared in 2004 and Lanarkshire by Munro Dunn in 2006." The book is in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; STORED NEW PRISTINE CONDITION SANITIZED THEN WRAPPEDPHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED; Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1975. Light general wear. 340 pages. 7540.

Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Couverture différente. Edition 1982. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Different cover. Edition 1982. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. Hardcover in near fine condition. 4th Edition.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small Quarto. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt-on-grey motif to front, and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Corners and several small sections of bottom edges lightly nicked or nudged. No "First Edition" statement, so no edition claimed. ".the OED took the book High Speed Data Processing as the first careful incidence of the usage of words like disk, disk store, and things like that. So there are 11 incidences in the OED where the first recorded use of words like that were in that book." (C.C. Gotlieb from a series of oral interviews conducted with C. C. (Kelly) Gotlieb [GOTLIEB:] of the University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science. The interviews were done over a period of 15 years (1992 to 2007) by Michael R. Williams [WILLIAMS:] of the University of Calgary.

First edition; 4to; frontispiece & 4 plates, folding appendix, small illustrations and equations within the text, some light pencilled equations and notes, contents faintly toned; original blue wire-stitched wrappers printed in black; shelf number in black ink to the upper wrapper, bookplate with withdrawn stamps of Queen's University, Ontario, library pocket and bar code on the inside of the rear cover, wrappers lightly rubbed with some creasing, toning, and a few spots at the corners and edges, very good condition; 58pp. First edition of the only separately published work by computing pioneer Beatrice Worsley (1921-2003) and the founding document of Canadian computer science: the manual for using Worsley's Transcode system for the Feranti Mark I. Rare; we can locate only one other copy, at the University of Toronto, where the text was prepared. This copy is from the library of Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, where Worsley spent the final part of her career. As a student Worsley excelled at science and earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. Immediately after graduating in 1944 she enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, working on ship degaussing and hull corrosion. In 1946 Worsley began graduate studies at MIT, writing an important master's thesis, A Mathematical Survey of Computing Devices, 'a fascinating snapshot of contemporary computing technology' (Campbell, Beatrice Helen Worsley: Canada's Computing Pioneer, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2003). Worsley became firmly committed to computing as a career, and in 1948 she joined the new University of Toronto Computation Centre. She was sent to Cambridge to study the new EDSAC, arriving with a colleague to find it 'in a fairly advanced state of construction, and though neither had an engineering background, both helped prepare it for the first run on 6 May 1949' (Campbell). Her report on the initial results was later published in the important 1975 volume The Origins of Digital Computers. In Cambridge Worsley resumed her graduate studies under Douglas Hartree, and her PhD dissertation, Serial Programming for Real and Idealised Digital Calculating Machines, is believed to be the very first involving modern computers. 'By the time Worsley finished her assignment at Cambridge she was one of the most computer-literate women in the world, with practical and theoretical expertise that few could have matched. She was one of the first female academic computer programmers who wrote all her own programs, a point she strongly emphasised in her dissertation' (Campbell). At around the time Worsley returned to Toronto the Computation centre was installing its first computer, a Ferranti Mark I which she named the Ferut. It proved difficult to program, particularly for scientists with limited computer experience, and Worsley and a colleague were assigned to create an automatic coding system for it. 'They dubbed their project Transcode and finished writing the compiler within about a year. Transcode was an immediate success. Basic lessons could be taught in two hours, and the calculations could be returned to users in a matter of days, not weeks' (Campbell). One important feature was the ability to input numbers as decimals rather than binary code. The present publication was written as a manual specifically 'for scientists, engineers, and others in Canada to make available to them the use of FERUT. With its aid one can write programs for computations by the machine without having to learn the many intricacies that must be mastered by the professional programmer' (preface). Despite Worsley's expertise, track record, and core role in the Computing Centre she was not promoted to assistant professor until 1960. 'In comparison to other staff members, the lack of official recognition is conspicuous and is almost certainly because of her gender' (Campbell). In 1965 she left Toronto for Queen's University in Ontario to launch a new Computing Centre and teach undergraduate classes, and this copy of the manual was originally in the Queens University Library. Worsley died unexpectedly during a research sabbatical at age 50 and 'left a fascinating career. Her natural appreciation for what computers were capable of doing was reflected in a lifelong interest in the development of computer libraries and scientific computation. A skilled mathematician and unquestionably Canada's first female computer scientist, she found a successful calling in a profession dominated by men' (Campbell).