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AIEE-IRE JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE. (1) Review of electronic digital computers. Papers and discussions presented at the Joint AIEE-IRE computer conference, Philadelphia, PA., December 10-12, 1951. New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, February 1952. (2) Review of input and output equipment used in computing systems. Papers and discussions presented at the Joint AIEE-IRE-ACM computer conference, New York, N.Y., December 10-12, 1952. New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, March 1953.
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AIEE-IRE JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE. (1) Review of electronic digital computers. Papers and discussions presented at the Joint AIEE-IRE computer conference, Philadelphia, PA., December 10-12, 1951. New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, February 1952. (2) Review of input and output equipment used in computing systems. Papers and discussions presented at the Joint AIEE-IRE-ACM computer conference, New York, N.Y., December 10-12, 1952. New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, March 1953.
2 volumes, 8o. Original gray printed wrappers. Boxed (first vol. only). Provenance: George W. Reitweisner, with signatures on upper covers.
FIRST EDITION. The proceedings of the first two AIEE-IRE-ACM computer conferences, sponsored jointly by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers, with assistance from the fledgling Association for Computing Machinery (which became a full sponsor in 1952). Beginning in February 1953 the conferences took place semiannually, meeting alternately in California (the Western Joint Computer Conference) and in various East Coast cities (the Eastern Joint Computer Conference); the proceedings of these conferences were issued under these alternating titlesThe purpose of the 1951 conference was "to assess the adequacy of the designs of present working high-speed digital computers in order to point out the direction which computer design should go, to make computers best for the jobs that they have been doing and for the jobs that they will have to do" (p. 5).The eighteen papers presented at the meeting concerned the design and operation of most electronic computers then in use and a few that were not yet operational. The second conference was devoted to discussion of input and output devices, characterized in Norman Taylor's keynote address as "one of the most controversial parts of our computing systems. Most of the twenty-seven papers delivered at the second conference dealt with the input-output systems of four specific computers: SEAC, UNIVAC, RAYDAC, and the IBM 701, IBM's first electronic computer, which had just been introduced in 1952. Other papers discussed recording techniques for digital coded data, devices for converting punched-card data to magnetic tape (and vice versa), devices for transporting recording media, and buffering between input-output and the computer. OOC 740, 1181, 1182.
[With:] ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY. Communications. Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1958)-Vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1958). Original white printed wrappers. 12 numbers, each paginated separately. Provenance: George W. Reitwiesner, with his signature on the front wrapper of each issue. Reitwiesner, a member of the original EDVAC team, was on the staff of the Army Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen, Maryland; he took over the operation of the EDVAC once it was moved to Aberdeen. The first volume of this ongoing serial. Distributed to members of the ACM and to subscribers to the ACM's Journal, the Communications is intended primarily for the rapid dissemination of information whose kind and quantity will be of value to the membership of the Association" (no. 1, p. 1). The editorial board included A. J. Perlis as editor-in-chief and Grace Hopper as standards editor. -- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY. Preprints of papers presented at the 13th national meeting of the Association ... at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois ... June 11-13, 1958. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1958. Original tan printed wrappers. -- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY. Preprints of papers presented at the 14th national meeting of the Association ...at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ... September 1-3, 1959. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1959. Original buff printed wrappers. OOC 441-443. For further information on this lot see Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace.
2 volumes, 8
FIRST EDITION. The proceedings of the first two AIEE-IRE-ACM computer conferences, sponsored jointly by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers, with assistance from the fledgling Association for Computing Machinery (which became a full sponsor in 1952). Beginning in February 1953 the conferences took place semiannually, meeting alternately in California (the Western Joint Computer Conference) and in various East Coast cities (the Eastern Joint Computer Conference); the proceedings of these conferences were issued under these alternating titlesThe purpose of the 1951 conference was "to assess the adequacy of the designs of present working high-speed digital computers in order to point out the direction which computer design should go, to make computers best for the jobs that they have been doing and for the jobs that they will have to do" (p. 5).The eighteen papers presented at the meeting concerned the design and operation of most electronic computers then in use and a few that were not yet operational. The second conference was devoted to discussion of input and output devices, characterized in Norman Taylor's keynote address as "one of the most controversial parts of our computing systems. Most of the twenty-seven papers delivered at the second conference dealt with the input-output systems of four specific computers: SEAC, UNIVAC, RAYDAC, and the IBM 701, IBM's first electronic computer, which had just been introduced in 1952. Other papers discussed recording techniques for digital coded data, devices for converting punched-card data to magnetic tape (and vice versa), devices for transporting recording media, and buffering between input-output and the computer. OOC 740, 1181, 1182.
[With:] ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY. Communications. Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1958)-Vol. 1, no. 12 (December 1958). Original white printed wrappers. 12 numbers, each paginated separately. Provenance: George W. Reitwiesner, with his signature on the front wrapper of each issue. Reitwiesner, a member of the original EDVAC team, was on the staff of the Army Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen, Maryland; he took over the operation of the EDVAC once it was moved to Aberdeen. The first volume of this ongoing serial. Distributed to members of the ACM and to subscribers to the ACM's Journal, the Communications is intended primarily for the rapid dissemination of information whose kind and quantity will be of value to the membership of the Association" (no. 1, p. 1). The editorial board included A. J. Perlis as editor-in-chief and Grace Hopper as standards editor. -- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY. Preprints of papers presented at the 13th national meeting of the Association ... at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois ... June 11-13, 1958. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1958. Original tan printed wrappers. -- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY. Preprints of papers presented at the 14th national meeting of the Association ...at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ... September 1-3, 1959. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1959. Original buff printed wrappers. OOC 441-443. For further information on this lot see Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace.
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