Special course on digital computers summary, 1953.

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Special course on digital computers summary, 1953.

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Contains notes and schedules that were intended as an informal summary of the special course. Includes laboratory exercises, answer sheets, explanations of special MIDAC programs, expositions of particular problems and machine techniques, excerpts from texts and articles, and notes from a course taught by John W. Carr III, "Methods in High-Speed Computation." Extended notes from the following instructors are included: Walter F. Bauer, Ralph T. Dames, Glenn W. Graves, Lyman W. Orr, and Norman R. Scott.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Carr, John Wesley, 1814-1889

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University of Michigan. Willow Run Laboratories. 1953.

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During a two week period in August, 1953, the Willow Run Research Center of the Engineering Research Institute at the University of Michigan presented a special course for individuals interested in the operation and application of the digital computer. The Michigan Digital Automatic Computer (MIDAC) was used during the course as a laboratory tool. The course covered number systems, machine instruction methods, computational modes, subroutines, translational processes, programming, storage device...

Graves, Glenn W. (Glenn William), 1929-

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Bauer, Walter F.

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President and chief executive officer of Informatics General Corporation. From the description of Oral history interview with Walter F. Bauer, 1973 May 14. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283004 Computer software developer and computer software industry executive. From the description of Oral history interview with Walter F. Bauer, 1983 May 16. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63295492 ...

Dames, Ralph Theodore, 1927-

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Scott, Norman R. (Norman Ross), 1918-

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Orr, L. W. 1915-

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