Catalogue description Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Grants Committee.   Strachey...

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Details of CSAC 71.1.80/E.32
Reference: CSAC 71.1.80/E.32
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Grants Committee.

 

Strachey was appointed to the newly-constituted Computing Science Sub-committee of the above in October 1963. The Chairman was Lord Halsbury.

 

Letter of appointment and brief correspondence re first meeting of the Sub-committee on 18 November 1963.

 

Committee papers on support for computer research, heavily annotated by Strachey who describes one as 'a quite deplorable paper calculated to put irrelevant bureaucratic difficulties in the way of anyone trying to start anything interesting in computer research. It should be resisted'. Various dates November 1963-March 1965.

Date: 1963-1965
Held by: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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