St John‘s College Personal Collections

Reports on and associated papers relating to overseas visits made by MVW

Wilkes/III/V/1
File
1989–1997

Includes reports on several visits to successive Hot Chips conferences and an aborted visit to Serbia in 1997.

Reports and position papers from an Olivetti Research Working Party set up to consider CFR applications, as a feasibility study for surveillance systems

Wilkes/III/T/42
File
1990

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Members of the Party were MVW, A. J. Chaney and I. D. Wilson.

Publishers' agreements, reviews, correspondence and royalty statements relating to The Preparation of programs for an electronic digital computer by MVW, D. J. Wheeler and S. Gill (Addison-Wesley, 1951, 2nd edn 1957)

Wilkes/I/E/3
File
1950–1967

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes correspondence with Addison-Wesley on the Adlai Stevenson mission to Moscow attempting to secure Russian payments of royalties to western authors, 1958.

Publishers' agreement, reviews, correspondence and royalty statements relating to Time-sharing Computer Systems (Macdonald, 1968)

Wilkes/I/E/7
File
1967–1975

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes correspondence with Macdonald & Co. (esp. R. F. Sadler) and Macdonald and Jane's (esp. Susan Egerton-Jones); Stan Gill, Imperial College; Tom Kilburn, University of Manchester; Eiiti Wada, University of Tokyo; S. Takahashi, Hitachi Ltd; Yushi Kato, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Nagata-cho; P. Naslin, Ecoles Superieures de l'Armement; Kozaburo Yano, K. Yano Literary Agency, Tokyo; Peter J. Denning, Princeton; A. Tomuta, Editura Tehnica, Bucharest; V. M. Baltac, ITC Bucharest; Harry Whitfield, Mathematisch Institut, Groningen.

Publishers' agreement, reviews, correspondence and royalty statements relating to Oscillations of the Earth's Atmosphere (CUP, 1949)

Wilkes/I/E/2
File
1948–1973

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Correspondence with CUP; Dir Edward Appleton, 1949; D. F. Martyn, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1950.

Publishers' agreement, publicity, reviews and correspondence relating to A Short Introduction to Numerical Analysis (CUP, 1966)

Wilkes/I/E/5
File
1965–1978

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes correspondence with CUP (esp. A. K. Parker); E. & E. Plumridge, printers (about an earlier version of the booklet, privately printed); R. T. D. Richards; Jim Wilkinson, National Physical Laboratory; L. Fox, OU Computing Laboratory; A. Young, University of Liverpool; Walter E. Creed; Fernando L. T. Rodriguez, Montevideo.

Publishers' agreement, publicity, correspondence and royalty statements relating to Automatic Digital Computers (Methuen, 1956)

Wilkes/I/E/4
File
1952–1971

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes correspondence with Methuen & Co. (esp. Peter Wait); A. L. Freedman; J. M. Harries; A. Walther, IPM Darmstadt; A. D. Booth, Birkbeck; Kenneth Zeigler and Mary Woozley, McGraw-Hill Book Co.; Geoffrey Faber, Faber and Faber; John S. Snyder, John Wiley & Sons.

'Progress by leaps and bounds: the story of the computer': successive versions of a lecture by MVW

Wilkes/I/L/2
File
1991–2006

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

This lecture was addressed to Part IA Computer Science Tripos students at the beginning of their first year.

Programs, notes, IAM newsletters, correspondence and other papers relating to a visit in Oct. 1970 to the US

Wilkes/I/D/2
File
1970

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Visits to Buffalo (microprogramming workshop), Cambridge MA (Project MAC), Wakefield MA (Computer Associates, Interactive Symbolic Manipulation), with discussion of an extension of the ARPANET to the UK. Correspondence with J. C. R. Licklider, Project MAC; D. W. Davies, National Physical Laboratory Teddington; Lawrence G. Roberts, Advanced Research Projects Agency Pentagon.

Programmes, notes, and correspondence relating to MVW's participation in a neural networks workshop in Nuremberg

Wilkes/III/V/42
File
1990

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

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