Wilkes, Maurice V

The second decade of computer development. Signed offprint

Publisher Information: 1961. Wilkes, Maurice V. The second decade of computer development. Offprint from The Computer Journal 1 (1958). Unbound as issued. Last leaf torn and creased, not affecting text. Signed by Wilkes on the first leaf. 98-105pp. 282 x 217 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. Book Id: 39756

First edition, offprint issue. Wilkes's presidential address to the British Computer Society, delivered on June 16, 1958, emphasizes the advances in science made possible by high-speed automatic digital computers, in particular Kendrew's use of EDSAC in the determination of the structure of the myoglobin molecule (see no. 744). Wilkes 1999, no. 46. Origins of Cyberspace 1042.

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