preparation programs electronic digital computer de wilkes maurice wheeler david gill (6 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Second Edition. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; Reading, 1957. Hardcover. Second Edition. A Very Good, red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some handling/scuffing to boards, rubbing along board and spine edges, handwritten ink name top front free endpaper, some age toning to text block, slightly cocked, without Dust wrapper. A nice and clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]., 238pp., appendix, bibliography, indexed. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, large 8vo., (14) + ( 1 part) + 167 + (1 blank) + (2 index) pages complete including 2 photo plates as frontis. Publisher's grey/brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Original white end papers. Covers : rubs top/bottom odf spine and corners, fade of gilt lettering on spine else clean and unmarked. Contents : very clean, unmarked and unfoxed. Clean copy. VG.

8vo. 167 pp. 2 photographic plates, publisher's cloth. Fifth edition. - Alan Turing's copy, acquired by him and signed ("A.M. Turing") upside down on the lower free endpaper in pencil. Turing's own copy of text which played an important role in the formation of his ideas on computing. The book was purchased and read during Turing's time as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge from 1931. Provenance: Alan Turing (1912-1954); Robin Gandy (1919-1995), Turing's friend and one of his executors; bequeathed to Wolfson College. A Fellow of Wolfson from 1970 until his death in 1995, Gandy generously left his entire estate to the College, including these books once owned by Alan Turing, with the wish that his legacy be used to benefit the College and its students.

Condición: Near fine. First printing. First edition of this early and important work in computer programming. PREPARATION contains programming instructions for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early British computer built by author Wilkes and colleagues at the University of Cambridge. Known as the first textbook on computer programming, and proportionately influential, THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS captures an early and defining moment in the history of computer programming. As scholar Michael R. Williams has written: "EDSAC holds a prime place in the history of the world's first computers, not only because it was the first full-scale operational electronic digital computer, but because its ability to construct programs from relocatable subroutines, and to link them together at load time, provided a model for almost all others to follow. [.] It provided the basic ideas as to how one should go about creating a computing system" 9'' x 6''. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Illustrated with two black and white plates. 167, [3] pages. Touches of rubbing, shelfwear to cloth. Overall sound and clean.

Condición: Very good plus. First edition, important association copy of this early work in computer programming, owned and annotated by Mary Lee Woods, noted computer scientist and programmer (and mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee). This book contains programming instructions for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), an early British computer built by author Wilkes and colleagues at the University of Cambridge. Mary Lee Woods (later Berners-Lee), to whom this copy belonged, was a member of the working group responsible for developing the Ferranti Mark 1, aka the Manchester Electronic Computer: the first commercially available digital computer, completed and delivered a year ahead of the U.S.-developed UNIVAC I. In 1951, the year of this text's publication, Woods returned from a disappointing Australian astrophysics fellowship and was swiftly recruited by Ferranti's team in Manchester, though she had never programmed before (a "significant proportion of the programmer recruits were female mathematics graduates from universities in the south-east of England," writes Simon Lavington). Known as the first book on computer programming, and proportionately influential, THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS was likely a major part of Woods's initial training; her neat annotations record her own additions, substitutions, and adjustments to the sample subroutines provided. In 1952, Woods led an effort to secure an official policy guaranteeing pay equality for male and female programmers and remarkably succeeded, though women programmers continued to struggle for equal time on the much-in-demand machine, shared with university users. In an interview years later, she recalled: "You'd be in a very deep sleep, and to be woken up although you were dying to get on to the computerto be woken up in the middle of the night was not very good, when your turn came! However, it was worth it. You had black coffee, and had to go on the computer." A remarkable association copy, capturing an early moment in the history of computer programming. 9'' x 6''. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Illustrated with two black and white plates. 167, [3] pages. Pencil to front free endpaper with owner's signature of "M.L. Woods" in block capitals; pencil note to rear endpaper; occasional neat and unobtrusive pencil annotations throughout. Seller's label from Scientific Computing Service Limited of London neatly mounted to title page. Spine sunned; lettering faded. Moderate bumping and edgewear.

HARD BACK RED. Condición: GOOD. SECOND ED. General wear and foxing otherwise very good condition. Contains b&w photos DATE PUBLISHED: 1957 EDITION: SECOND ED 238.