Catalogue description 'American Trip 1957'.   Strachey made the trip in order to attend the Association for...

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Reference: CSAC 71.1.80/H.2
Description:

'American Trip 1957'.

 

Strachey made the trip in order to attend the Association for Computing Machinery Conference, 19-21 June 1957, Houston, Texas. While in USA he also visited the Lincoln Laboratories of M.I.T., the I.B.M. laboratory at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the University of Illinois, the Remington Rand laboratory in Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr College. Strachey kept a notebook recording details of these visits (staff, equipment, programs, procedures, specifications and design of machines) as well as notes of addresses, travel arrangements, expenses incurred, during his journey. This journal is an interesting record of the state of computing in USA at that time.

 

The folder also includes a small amount of correspondence re scheduling of visits and material collected at the conference.

 

See CSAC 71.1.80/C.33 for a similar notebook kept on Strachey's journey to Canada and USA in 1952.
Date: 1957
Held by: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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