'Notes for Various Lectures'
MS. Eng. misc. b. 295/G.3
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
'Notes for Various Lectures'
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. misc. b. 295/G.3
Summary
Folder of miscellaneous sets of manuscript notes; one is labelled 'Notes on Binary Floating Point'.
Includes correspondence with M.V. Wilkes and E.N. Mutch regarding a Summer School on scientific applications of digital computers held in Cambridge in September 1957. Strachey's lectures were titled 'Review of Commercially Available Computers'.
Folder also includes brief correspondence regarding a British Council Course on Digital Computers, November 1957, at which Strachey lectured, and brief correspondence with manufacturers and firms regarding details of their machines, for use in the lectures.
Date
1957
Language
English
Physical extent
1 file
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Collection contents
Papers and correspondence of Christopher Strachey
Lectures, Talks and Papers
'Notes for Various Lectures'
