Communications of the ACM, tribute issue to John W Mauchly 1907-1980.
Assoc Computing Machinery, NY, March 1980, volume 23 number 3; pp141-196 + 34 pgs adverts.
Condition: Very Good- overall, corner crease upper right with thumbed corners of pages; bump to lower spine, slight edgewear; binding is sound, pages are clean & unmarked; double-column text, 8.5x11.
Keywords: mauchly eckert, history of computing pioneers, mauchly obituary, tribute to John Mauchly, region representation
Categories: Biography and Company Histories, Technical Journals, Proceedings, Conferences, ACM Association for Computing Machinery
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Item Description
Photo of Mauchly on front cover;Special Section Honoring John W Mauchly -- John W. Mauchly (Daniel D McCracken); A Tribute to John William Mauchly (Isaac L. Auerbach);
Also included in this issue are other articles -- General Considerations on the Design of an interactive system for Data Analysis (Robert F Ling);
Research contributions - Computing Methodologies - A Generalized Text Editor (Christopher W Fraser); Region Representation - Quadtrees from Boundary Codes (Hanan Samet); Region Representation - Boundary Codes from Quadtrees (Charles Dyer, Azriel Rosenfeld, Hanan Samet);
Systems and PRogramming - A Linear Algorithm for Copying Binary Trees Using Bounded Workspace (K P Lee); Features incl. technical correspondence - Representation of the Simulation Event Set, Encoding of Line Numbers; ACM news etc.