Preprints of Papers Presented at the 13th National Meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery at the University of Illinois Urbana Illinois Wednesday Through Friday June 11-13 1958
Urbana, IL, U.S.A. ACM Preprints Committee 1958. 59 leaves, irregularly numbered. 8 /12 x 11 inches. Tan self wrappers printed in black ink. Blank spine. Stamp of F. M. Verzuh on rear cover, and handwritten 'ACM-58' and '58 ACM' on spine panel (the normal method Verzuh used to mark his books). Lower inch of spine panel paper is loose. Small chip to the top of the front wrapper. Very Good. Wraps. [17693]
Contains summaries of many of the papers scheduled to be presented at the conference.
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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.
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