Proceedings of the Electronic Symposium held April 30, May 1, 2 1952 at University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles IRE Professional Group on Electronic Computers 1952. First Edition. Variously paginationed. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Comb bound (minor damage to comb). Publisher's flexible green printed wraps. Stamp of MIT Professor Frank M. Verzuh on front cover. Very Good. Comb Bound. [18431]
Contains the article "The Human Computer's Dreams of the Future" by Ida I. Rhodes where she compares the thrill of real world discoveries in computing to the false thrills of those she sees reading science fiction. "The first electronic computer symposium held on the west coast of the United States." Among those presenting papers were Harry Huskey, Ida Rhodes, and Nathaniel Rochester.
Previous owner Professor Frank M. Verzuh worked on the MIT Rapid Arithmetic Machine and attended the Moore School lectures. Scarce.
Literature:
Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace #842.
Price: $1,250.00