St John‘s College Personal Collections

Administrative correspondence relating to consultancies, membership of official committees, Cambridge University Wireless society's G6UWamateur wireless station licence, etc,

Wilkes/I/A/2
File
1946–1980

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Includes correspondence with John Pinkerton and J. G. Bates, ICL, 1979-80; J. D. Littlehailes and M. A. J. W. Pegg, ICI, 1979-80; K. B. Huntbatch, Plessey, 1975-6; T. C. Hudson, IBM, 1957-61; Sir Gordon Cox and L. S. Porter, Agricultural Research Council, 1966-76; F. J. M. Farley, D. R. J. Stephen and Major-General T. L. Morony, RMCS Shrivenham, and J. M. Parkin, Ministry of Defence, 1973-80; the GPO and R. C. Wainright, Selwyn College, re the G6UW licence, 1946-72. Also a note from The Spectator enclosing fee for 'Can Machines Think?', 1951, and certificate of election as Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1972.

Draft of Sir John Cockcroft, 'General account of Army radar'

Wilkes/I/A/12
File
1945–

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

An attached email exchange with Brian Austin, 31 May - 1 June 1999, confirms that the draft was brought to MVW's attention by Oatley, while he was writing his memoirs.

Biographical notes on D. R. Hartree

Wilkes/I/A/14
File
1975–

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Most of these notes were supplied by Hartree's widow, Elaine. See covering letter dated 28 Nov.

Lecture notes, mostly for groups and institutions outside Cambridge, on various computer science topics

Wilkes/I/B/7
File
1974–1976

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Jottings made during the Moore School Lectures, Philadelphia

Wilkes/I/BD/2
File
1946

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Notes taken at class lectures on thermodynamics given by A. H. Wilson (later Sir Alan Wilson)

Wilkes/I/BD/3
File
1932 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

MVW observes that this is 'the last survivor of my undergraduate notebooks'.

Correspondence, tickets, notes and papers relating to a trip to the US

Wilkes/I/C/4
File
1965

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Returning to the States after C3 above, and visiting Cleveland (ACM Annual Meeting), Lake Arrowhead (IEEE Workshop on timesharing), Santa Monica (Systems Development Corp.), and Rand Corp. (including JOSS). Includes correspondence with Donald K. Pollock, US Naval Department; Donal A. Meier, West Coast Technical Committee; Launor F. Carter, System Development Corporation; Herbert Schorr, IBM; Edward E. David Jr, Commission on Engineering Education; Peter G. Neumann; D. E. Hart, General Motors.

Papers, statements, receipts, business cards, photographs, itineraries, and correspondence relating to visits to MIT, Stanford, and then to Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto and Nara, Japan

Wilkes/I/C/13
File
1968

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Correspondence with W. F. Miller and Jerome A. Feldman, Stanford; Carlos and Helen Christensen; Paul D. Rovner, MIT; S. Takahashi, Hitachi and the Information Processing Society of Japan; Takamitsu Saigusa, Japan Electronic Industry Development Association; Shuzo Yajima, Kyoto University.

Tickets, receipts, notes and correspondence relating to visits to Bedford MA (ACM workshop on microprocessing) and New York (IBM Systems Research Institute)

Wilkes/I/C/18
File
1968

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Correspondence with Harry J. Gray, University of Pennsylvania; Thomas L. Connors, Mitre Corp.; John Pinkerton (?), English Electric Computers Ltd.

Timetables, presentations, bills, notes, correspondence and other papers relating to a visit to the US

Wilkes/I/C/21
File
1968–1969

Part of Papers of Maurice Wilkes

Visits to Johns Hopkins University, Boston (Spring Joint Computer Conference, Extensible Languages Symposium, May), Poughkeepsie (IBM Large Systems Division) and Cambridge MA (Project MAC). Copies of UN General Assembly Resolution on international cooperation with a view to the use of computers and computation techniques for development, 1968, a presentation 'Straightening out programming languages', byR. W. Bemer, General Electric Company, May 1969, and synopses of Johns Hopkins' newly introduced Computer Science courses. Correspondence with Martin Greenberger, Johns Hopkins University; Robert H. Fano, MIT; Jim Greenwood, IBM; J. C. Licklider, MIT; Anthony G. Oettinger, Harvard; W. M. Waite, University of Colorado; Yaohan Chu, University of Maryland; S. Dorn, University of Denver.

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