Guide to the Grace Murray Hopper Papers
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Series 6: Compiling Routines Grace Murray Hopper Collection NMAH.AC.0324 Page 25 of 38 Box 5, Folder 1 Letter, 3 December 1953, (EXHIBIT G) to Dr. Grace Hopper from Elmore G. Lawton, LTC, CE Army Map Service, Washington, D.C.; interested in trying A-2 Compiler on their problems, has promise of increasing efficiency of computing with UNIVAC. Box 5, Folder 1 Letter, 14 December 1953, (EXHIBIT H) to Dr. Grace Hopper from Emil D. Schell, Chief, Mathematical Computation Branch, AFAPA-3B, DCS/Comptroller, Hq USAF, Washington 25, D.C.; made effective use of A-2 Compiler, yet somewhat handicapped by lack of descriptive material; want copies of expository material and operating instructions. Box 5, Folder 1 Letter, 14 December 1953, (EXHIBIT I) to Dr. Grace Hopper from Emil D. Schell, Chief, Mathematical Computation Branch, AFAPA-3B, DCS/Comptroller, Hq USAF, Washington 25, D.C.; used A-2 Compiler for an Air Force problem; found subroutine to compute the cosine of an angle contained errors, enclose their corrections.Letter, (EXHIBIT J) to Dr. Grace Murray Hopper (illegible copy). Box 5, Folder 1 The A-2 Compiler System: Operations Manual, (EXHIBIT K) 15 November 1953. Copyright 1953 by Remington Rand, Inc. "A working paper intended to provide...all the information necessary to make use of the existing system." "The A-2 Compiler System has been developed by Richard K. Ridgway and Margaret H. Harper under the direction of Dr. Grace M. Hopper, Programming Research Section, Electronic Computer Department, Remington Rand, Inc." Box 5, Folder 2 Survey of Automatic Data-handling and computing (3 pp. blank form). Box 5, Folder 2 Glossary of Automatic Programming Terms (2 copies). Box 5, Folder 2 UNIVAC System: 1948-1951 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. Return to Table of Contents Series 7: Press Clippings Grace Murray Hopper Collection NMAH.AC.0324 Page 26 of 38 Series 7: Press Clippings, 1944 - 1953 Box 5, Folder 3 Torrey, Volta, Robot Mathematician Knows All the Answers, POPULAR SCIENCE, October 1944, pp. 86-89, 222f. Box 5, Folder 4 Davis, Watson, Ten Most Important Scientific Advancements of 1944, Tribune (handwritten in pencil, possibly NY Herald Tribune, in ad for Popular Science) (note: IBM, NYC, had Xerox, find out from there). Image(s) Box 5, Folder 5 New York Times, special to dateline August 6th. "Algebra Machine Spurs Research Calling for Long Calculations: Harvard Receives Today Device to Solve in Hours Problems Taking So Much Time They Have Never Been Worked Out." 7 Aug. 1944. Box 5, Folder 5 Post (handwritten) "Automatic Brain for Harvard" p. 1 to continuation "Harvard Gets World's Greatest Calculator" W/picture Aiken, Hopper and interpolator. Box 5, Folder 6 Grant, Lester "35-Ton Super-Brain Can Solve Hardest Mathematical Problem: It can do Simple Addition or Dynamic Equations; an Hour-Long Problem Solved in 5.8 Seconds; I.B.M. Presents Device to Harvard Today" Staff Correspondent to ? dateline Aug. 6-7 August 1944. Box 5, Folder 7 New York Herald Tribune, "The Greatest of Mathematical Calculating Machines and Its Designer" 7 August 1944. Pictures Aiken with Mark I, Hopper with tape punch, Bloch with output Box 5, Folder 8 Galbraith, "Side Glances" (cartoon) date September 18th "Just what I predicted! Here's an automatic arithmetic machine that does everything --why should I go on making a fool of myself studying those miserable fractions?" Box 5, Folder 8 Mathematics by the Millions editorial. Box 5, Folder 9 Mathematical Brain, title under photos in Boston paper, 7 Aug. 1944 Aiken and Hopper with interpolator, White with tape racks, Aiken with interpolator(?) Box 5, Folder 10 A Mathematical Robot With All the Answers Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 August 1944. Aiken with Mark I, Hopper with tape punch, White with sequence mechanism. Box 5, Folder 11 Wayman, Dorothy G. "Harvard Gets Huge Calculator: 51-Foot Machine Costs $250,000, Took Six Years" The Boston Daily Globe, 7 August 1944. Box 5, Folder 12 Stevens, Paul "Fabulous Robot Brain Now Works for Navy" Herald (handwritten) Boston Herald Monday 7 August 1944 picture: Aiken w/calculator. Box 5, Folder 12 The Aiken Machine editorial taped to same page as above Box 5, Folder 13 Associated Press "New Machine Marvel As Math. Calculator" The Boston Daily Record, 7 August 1944. Box 5, Folder 13 Harvard Told Robot Brain Just a Starter" from a Boston paper. Series 7: Press Clippings Grace Murray Hopper Collection NMAH.AC.0324 Page 27 of 38 Box 5, Folder 14 Calculator at Harvard Solves Navy Problems" The Christian Science Monitor, 7 August 1944, picture of Aiken with calculator. Box 5, Folder 14 Shellaby, Robert K (Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor) New Navy Calculator Solves Difficult Problems in Seconds. Box 5, Folder 15 Harvard Service News, published by the Harvard Crimson, Tuesday, 8 August 1944, Vol 11, No. 59., 146:12:50. Two articles with pictures. Box 5, Folder 15 Conant Accepts I.B.M. Calculator: High Navy Officers Witness Title Transfer: Mathematical Robot to Help University Research, p. 1-2 pictures: tape punch, Hopper and White with sequence mechanism, Aiken and Hopper with interpolator, Bloch with calculator. Box 5, Folder 15 Electric Brain Solves Functions, Interpolation, Differentials, Trig: Auto Circuits Work For BuShip in War p. 1-2 picture: Campbell and Verdonck (?) setting constants. Box 5, Folder 16 Presto! Math Made Easy With New 'Gadget': Plainfielder's Niece is Operator of Robot 'Einstein' Plainfield, N.J. paper, August 1944 Picture of Hopper and tape punch, good biographic data. 5 17 Gobind Behari Lal (Noted Science Analyst) Harvard's Robot Super-Brain"" The American Weekly, 15 October 1944. Box 5, Folder 18 Mathematical Robot, TIME, 14 August 1944, picture Aiken with tape and Mark I topic: Science. Box 5, Folder 19 Giant New Calculator Science News Letter 12 August 1944, topic: Engineering- Mathematics. Box 5, Folder 20 Think Machine" under picture of Hopper with tape punch, Newsweek, 14 August 1944.
Box 5, Folder 21 World's Greatest Machine for Automatic Calculation Science News Letter, 19 August 1944; picture of calculator on front cover topic: Engineering- Mathematics. Box 5, Folder 22 Robot Works Problems Never Before Solved, Popular Mechanics Magazine, October 1944; Pictures: Aiken with calculator, Hopper with tape punch, Verdonck(?) with tape racks, view of tape. Box 5, Folder 23 Harvard Alumni Bulletin: War Summer, Vol 47, No. 1, 23 September 1944. Box 5, Folder 24 'Mechanical Brain' from Harvard To Seek 'Push-Button' War Answers Boston Sunday Herald, 7 March 1948, (AP) Mark II, move to Dahlgren. Box 5, Folder 24 25-Ton 'Mechanical Brain' Built at Harvard for Navy Boston Sunday Globe, 7 March 1948; photo of Mark II, move to Dahlgren. Box 5, Folder 24 New, Faster Mechanical Brain Being Built at Harvard for Navy Paul Stevens (2 copies) 22 August 194?, photos: Aiken, Hopper Mark III.
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