COMPUTER CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA, 3 VOLUMES

i. Householder, Alston Scott (1904-1993), ed. Monte Carlo Method. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Mathematics Series 12. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1951, 4to, original blue wrappers, (bought from Mark Johnson, 1999), [T&W H173; Origins of Cyberspace 942]ii. Midwest Research Institute. Proceedings of symposium on industrial applications of automatic computing equipment. January 8-9, 1953, Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City: Midwest Research Institute, 1953, 4to, cloth-backed boards, library lamination and label, (bought from Plurabelle Books, Cambridge, 1999), [T&W M104, and H159, K7, R83]iii. National Physical Laboratory. Automatic digital computation. Proceedings of a symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory on March 25, 26, 27 & 28, 1953. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1954, 4to, photograph plates, red-cloth backed paper wrappers, modern folding cloth box, [T&W N20; Origins of Cyberspace 807], wrappers slightly soiled

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The second item includes papers by Grace Hopper (1906-1992), “The education of a computer”; Arthur A. Katz, “Engineering problems solved on the Univac”; and Rex Rice, “A description of and some problems worked at the Northrup Computing Center”.