John Purcell Nash papers, 1949-1957.

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John Purcell Nash papers, 1949-1957.

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Reports relating to the ILLIAC, ORDVAC, and the Digital Computer Laboratory, mimeographed lecture notes, a small amount of correspondence, and articles, all relating to the University of Illinois' computing activities. The articles and reprints include a two-page article on an ILLIAC-generated music composition, a review of computer progress for 1955 (by Nash), and an article with information about the ILLIAC written in Japanese. Also included are ONR Task 30 records and ORDVAC progress reports.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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United States. Office of Naval Research

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The original "Survey of large-scale computers and computer projects" was published by the Office of Naval Research in 1947 and 1948. It was revised and updated in 1950 under the title, HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING DEVICES (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950). This work was contracted out to the Minneapolis, Minn., firm of Engineering Research Associates and was an attempt to survey the state of computer technology at a time when the Navy was weighing the possibility of supporting the development of the electro...

Nash, John P. (John Purcell), 1915-

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Nash was a faculty member of the University of Illinois' Digital Computer Laboratory, which oversaw the development of the university's first two computers, the ORDVAC and the ILLIAC. Nash received a Ph.D. in mathematics at Rice University (1940), taught at Notre Dame, and worked as a physicist for the Kimberly-Clark Corporation before coming to the University of Illinois in 1950. Work on both Illinois computers had begun in 1949. The ORDVAC was constructed under contrac...

University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Digital Computer Laboratory

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