first edition Stiff Wrappers
1956 · Los Angeles, CA
by Association for Computing Machinery
Los Angeles, CA: University of California, 1956. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. First Edition. Approximately 170 pages, un-numbered. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Accopress bound loose leaf hole-punched (as issued?). With the stamp of F.M.Verzuh dated Sep 7, 1956 on "title page" and first article. Lacks a formal title page which apparently as issued (notes in OCLC support this). Informal title page frayed at fore-edge and a bit "proud" Stiff Wrappers. A collection of copies of some 40+ (mostly 3-4 page) papers presented at the 1956 Annual Meeting of the ACM. The ACM web portal has a complete list of papers from this annual meeting, all of which are present here, except for a 4 page paper by Hansen called "technical market analysis using a computer". Interesting articles including one proposing a method of teaching digital techniques to youngsters. Professor Frank M. Verzuh worked on the MIT Rapid Arithmetic machine and was active in early computing with the ACM.
(Inventory #: 18419)