Computer History Museum

Contains an 8-page abstract about Sketchpad, figures and diagrams demonstrating Sketchpad, and one punchcard.

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102726904
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Copy #75

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Catalogue number
102726907
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This folder contains Olsen's thesis submitted to MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.

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Catalogue number
102737364
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Folders 1 and 9 of this set include partial inventories of memoranda titles, authors, and dates.

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102737395
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Folder 1 of this set contains copies of report covers, some of which are included in these folders. Many of these reports discuss aspects of MIT's TX-2 computer. Folder 1 DiNolfo: Multi-coordinate selection systems for magnetic-core storage Widrowitz: The 16 by 16 metallic memory array, model 1 Folder 2 Division 6: Standard test equipment Folder 3 Brean: Design of an eight-pole magnetic-matrix switch Baker: Maximum efficiency transistor switching circuits Smith: Magnetic relaxation in thin films Buck: Ferroelectrics for digital information storage and switching Folder 4 Raffel: Switch for register selection in a magnetic-core memory Baltzer: Magnetostriction in ferrites possessing a square hysteresis loop Folder 5 Sutherland: Sketchpad, a man-machine graphical communication system Hilbiber: A new D-C transistor differential amplifier Folder 6 Breiding & Lindsay: Project Grind report on the high speed gate circuit Bradspies: A magnetic-core memory with external selection Folder 7 Presented at Western Joint Computer Conference, Los Angeles, February 1957 [photos included]-- Clark: The Lincoln TX-2 computer development Francovich & Peterson: A functional description of the Lincoln TX-2 computer Forgie: The Lincoln TX-2 input-output system Best: A short access time memory using two cores per bit Olsen: Tx-2 circuitry Folder 8 Fano: The transmission of information Cockle: Monostrophic codes Folder 9 Fadiman: A discussion of the circuitry used in the Lincoln TX-2 computer Davidson: A transistor selection system for a magnetic-core memory Folder 10 Froeschle: A study of threshold detection Gloor: A semiconductor regulated power supply Folder 11 Guditz: Plated component connections for micro-miniature circuits Gocht: The design of high speed analog sample and storage gates Folder 12 Ivie: Search procedures based on measures of relatedness between documents Kaiser & Angell: New techniques and equipment for correlation computation Folder 13 Klein: A study of high-speed multipliers Folder 14 Konkle: Hole storage in a grounded-emitter transistor circuit Maglio: A differential thermal analysis study of synthesized magnesium ferrite, manganese ferrite, and magnesium-manganese ferrite Folder 15 McMahon: Survey of memory techniques using transistors Papian: The MIT magnetic-core memory Popp: Transistor regulated power supplies Taylor: Designing for reliability Bivans: A Fourier synthesis character generator Folder 16 Stephenson: The logical design of a digital average response computer Savitt: A high-speed analog-to-digital encoder

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Catalogue number
102737398
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These folders include multiple printings of Olsen's thesis, "A Magnetic Matrix Switch and its Incorporation into a Coincident-Current Memory," submitted to MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.

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Catalogue number
102737408
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102737502
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Catalogue number
102739333
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This thesis includes chapters on “The History and Evolution of Integrated Circuit Innovation” (Ch 6),” The Invention of the Microprocessor, Revisited” (Ch 7), and an Appendix on “Moore's Law Retrospective from 2004” that are well documented with numerous useful references. 859 scanned pages.

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Catalogue number
102770817
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Contains correspondence, letters of recommendation, and report cards from Osborne's time as a student at the University of Birmingham. Also contains his Masters and Doctoral dissertations completed at the University of Delaware.

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Catalogue number
102783426
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The thesis is lacking a cover page, so the title and exact date is not known. This version is unpublished and was stored in a binder labeled "thesis." The subject of his doctoral thesis was subrecursive hierarchies of functions. Includes a second PDF with a black and white draft copy of the dissertation.

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Catalogue number
102784979
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Catalogue number
102785620
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The folder contains information about the online information retrieval systems developed at the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada.

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Catalogue number
102789364
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Catalogue number
102793076
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Department of Computer Science dissertation submitted for partial fulfillment of a PhD degree at NYU. Introduces the PSETL language intended for operating system description based on the SETL set-theoretic programming language.

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102803644
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A PhD thesis by Philippe Kruchten for the "Doctorat de L'E.N.S.T" (doctorate of the e.n.s.t) in the information specialty from Ecole Nationale Superierure des Telecommunications.

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Catalogue number
102805287
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Catalogue number
102805288
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Thesis to obtain "le grade de Docteur de L'ENST" with a specialty in system informatics.

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102805289
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A dissertation in the Department of Computer Science submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Courant Institute of New York University. Work supported in part by the Office of Naval Research, Grant NOOO14855K0413. Abstract: Very high level languages are often weakly typed in the sense that different occurrences of a name can be associated with distinct types. The types of many entities are nevertheless determinable from the structure of the program, allowing translators for these languages often to incorporate some sort of typefinding algorithm. Due to problems of algorithmic termina-tion, however, these algorithms have been unable to type structures of a recursive nature such as trees. In this thesis we present a method which detects and uncovers the structure of recur-sive objects, and discuss possible applications of the method to optimization of code. We examine the run-time type model of SETL and the corresponding data representation sub-language (DRSL), and present a general critique of the design as well as implementation of the current data representation sublanguage. The objects expressible by the latter are shown to be proper subsets of the universe of types assumable by SETL entities at run-time; we present suggestions for extending the representation sublanguage to allow for complete type specification.

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Catalogue number
102805306
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of Bacon's Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from NYU.

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Catalogue number
102805363
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