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Correspondence and associated papers relating to WISP

With a later photograph c. 1999 of MVW with (?) Lynn Conway. Includes correspondence with J. Morven Wilson and Vijay K. Gupta, University of St Andrews; J. H. Levin, Honeywell Inc.; N. Solntseff, University of New South Wales; Michael J. R. Shave, University of Bristol; G. K. Manacher, University of Chicago; William M. Waite, University of Colorado; David W. Barron, University of Southampton; M. H. Rogers, University of Bristol; Michael Thompson, English Electric Co. Ltd; Richard J. Orgass, General Electric Co. / Yale; Denis Manelski, Shell Oil Co.; H. Schorr, IBM; C. J. W.Mason; Richard Goodman, Editor of the Annual Review in Automatic Programming; B. Elliott and H. Lipps, CERN; J. D. Blake; J. S. Biggs; Hugh G. ApSimon, IBM; N. E. Wiseman. WISP was originally envisaged by MVW as a student exercise, and was then used to implement an EDSAC2 autocode compiler.

Correspondence and draft papers on other historical topics, including A. P. Sayer's History of Army Radar, the BA Mathematical Tables Committee, Wittgenstein, Kenneth Craik, G. H. Hardy, Stanley Gill's archive and other personal paper collections

Includes correspondence with Frank Smithies, St John's College; Jeannine B. Alton, Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, Oxford; O. L. Zangwill, University of Cambridge; Brian Pippard, Cavendish Laboratory; H. A. H. Boot; Stewart Gillmor, Mullard Observatory; Colin Hines, University of Toronto; Arthur L. Norberg, University of California, Berkeley; Roland Lees and A. C. Baynham, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Great Malvern. Copy of Arthur L. Norberg, 'The History of Science and Technology Project, the Bancroft Library: fourth annual report 1976-77' as well as a summary report 1973-6.

Correspondence and notes on the history of computing

Correspondence with Tony Sale, Computer Conservation Society; Per A. Holst, Stavanger College; Frank Nabarro, University of Witwatersrand; Martin Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick; E. M. J. Cummings, Letchworth Museums (enclosing information on DIGICO Computers); E. F. Clark; Svante Lindqvist; Roger Webster, University of Sheffield; Ivor Grattan-Guinness; Moshe Krieger, University of Ottawa; Pierre E. Mounier-Kuhn; Marie-José Durand; Lennart Lindberg, Stockholm royal Institute of Technology; Frank Smithies; the Earl of Halsbury; M. S. Dean, Historical Radar Archive; E. Knobloch, Technische Universitat Berlin; R. I. P. Bulkeley; W. S. Elliott; Donald W. Willis; Doron D. Swade, Science Museum; R. J. Bishop, CADCentre Ltd; Geoffrey Tweedale, National Archive for the History of Computing. With a stray photograph showing MVW, Goldstein and Zuse, Vienna 1972.

Correspondence and other papers on miscellaneous biographical and personal topics

Includes two versions of MVW's will; instructions on the event of his death; a card from colleagues at the Computer Laboratory oin MVW's ninetieth birthday; correspondence re possible deposit of his papers in the Churchill College archive; numerous requests for autographs from all over the world. Includes correspondence with Herbert Freeman; Joan M. Smith, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; Angus MacKinnon; David Barron; Mike Hally; Y. Hagimoto, NHK International Inc; Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Technische Universitat Munich; Nicholas Handy, University of Cambridge; Graham Farmelo; Stefan Petersson; Lise Gough, CU Computer Laboratory; Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems; Jeff Walden, BBC Written Archives Centre; Hugh McGregor Ross; David Caminer; William Lyons, Claude Lyons Ltd; Mary Croarken; Allan C. Jones, Open University; Charlotte F. Fischer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; Bob Grimes, Cambridge and District Amateur Radio Club; Wendy Hall, University of Southampton; Sir Anthony Hoare, Microsoft; James Barr; Richard Samworth, St John's College; Frederick P. Brooks, UNC Chapel Hill; David Robertson, Technology Response; D. P. Charters, Investment Research; James Munro; Ross E. Dunn, San Diego State University; Georgina Ferry; Christopher Hipwell; Manfred Broy; K. K. Phua, World Scientific Publishing Co.; Peter Goddard, Master of St John's College Cambridge; Eric A. Weiss; Adrian Johnstone, Alan R. Davies and Larry Hurn, Royal Holloway; Robert Kahn, University of Cambridge; Sir Clive Sinclair; Donald E. Knuth, Stanford; Peter Woodsford, Laser-Scan; Edwin L. Harder; Stephen Snell; Anthony Ralston; Tony Sale, Computer Conservation Society; David Singmaster, South Bank University; Kevin Murray, AEA Technology; George R. Stibitz; Billy Klüver; Per-Erik Danielsson, Linköping University; Ole Franksen, Technical University of Denmark; Sophie White, Central Office of Information; Frank Nabarro, University of Witwatersrand; Keith Halden, BBC; Katsuhiko Noda, Graphtec Corp.; J. M. Bennett; R. Over, La Trobe University. PARTLY RESTRICTED, ENQUIRE AT ISSUE DESK

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