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.
PROVENANCE:
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.
Literature:
Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace #842.
Price: $1,250.00