Proceedings of a Second Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery. Jointly Sponsored by the Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and Harvard University at The Computation Laboratory. 13-16 September 1949. The Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. Volume XXVI.

AIKEN, Howard Hathaway (ed.).

Published by Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1951

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First edition. The symposium was on the application of computing machinery to fields such as economics, physics, aeronautics, and physiology. The Mark III, Aiken's first electronic computer, was unveiled during the first session. "Notable are the papers presented on memory systems, the beginnings of semi-automatic coding systems, and descriptions of machines from MIT (Whirlwind), Bell Labs (Model VI), Raytheon and General Electric" (Tomash & Williams). Origins of Cyberspace 417; Tomash & Williams H60. Quarto. Half-tone illustrations. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Ownership initials on front free endpaper, bottom edge lettered in pencil. Extremities rubbed: a very good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proceedings of a Second Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery. Jointly Sponsored by the Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and Harvard University at The Computation Laboratory. 13-16 September 1949. The Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. Volume XXVI.
• Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1951
• Edition: 1st Edition