Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Man-Machine Communication

First Edition. xxi, [1-blank], 150 pages. Small 8vo. Publisher's original blue paper wraps. Spine browned and faded, previous owner signature on front wrapper (JW. Gastelum?) and stamp of FM. Verzuh. Clean internally, noting penciled "BS" on the abstract page for a paper by Fano. Wraps. The sixth in a series of meetings IBM organized for information exchange among leaders in various fields. Contains articles or abstracts presented at the conference by Roothaan, Taub, Fano, Culler, Shaw, Oettinger, Fenves, Stockham Jr, Perlis, Coons, Bryant, Kilgour, Miller, Fender, and Dobbs. Held at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, May 3, 4, and 5, 1965. PROVENANCE: From the library of MIT Computer pioneer Frank Verzuh (his stamp on the front wrapper). Dr. Frank M. Verzuh was an MIT Professor and long-time employee. Involved in digital computing from its earliest days, he attended the famous Moore School lectures in 1946, worked on Bush's Rapid Arithmetic Machine and various differential analyzers before and during the war and helped to design the Rockefeller Electronic Calculator, a small digital computer. Professor Verzuh taught MIT courses on computing, and became Assistant Director of the MIT Computation Center, a post he held for many years. During his tenure the Center prototyped a number of significant machines in the history of computing. Dr. Verzuh was a pioneer in early computing, working with and around many of the ideas and machines that have made modern computing.…