Communications Of The Association For Computing Machinery (ACM)

Complete run of the Communications of the ACM monthly journal during the year 1962. Articles include: Papers Presented at an Open Technical Meeting on Design. Implementation and Application of IR-Oriented Languages, October 20-21, 1961, Princeton; ALGOL Primer by H. R. Schwarz; Simulation and Analysis in Biochemical Systems: Analysis and Pattern Recognition; Automatic-Programming-Language Translation Through Syntactical Analysis by Robert S. Ledley, inventor of the full-body Computer Tomography (CT) scanner; Development of CODASYL; Why COBOL? byCOBOL developers were Joseph F. Cunningham; Retiring Computer Pioneer: Howard Aiken; Communication Between Indepenntly Translated Blocks by Peter Wegner (EDSAC Computer); Use of Multiprogramming in the Design of a Low Cost Digital Computer by Trevor Pearcey, who created CSIRAC; Evaluation of Polynomials by Computer by Donald Ervin Knuth, the father of the analysis of algorithms, 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. All journals bound in contemporary leather for Eric A. Weiss (volume with his name imprinted on front cover), contributor and editor of ACM . He started writing for Computing Reviews as soon as it was founded in 1960, and served as its editor-in-chief from 1968 to 1970. In 1971, Weiss became the first chairman of the ACM Publications Board, a role he held until 1973. In 1978, ACM celebrated Weiss by awarding him the ACM Distinguished Service Award "for a wide range of services to ACM and the computing community over a period of more than 20 years." In 1994, ACM included Weiss in the first group of ACM Fellows named, "for his contribution to ACM and to the computing community, particularly in the field of publications and publications policy." Light foxing to endpapers only. A computer science treasure with an important provenance. 9" - 11".…