Holdings Engineering Computer Science Department ILLIAC Bulletins, Guides an... Finding Aid Holdings Engineering Computer Science Department ILLIAC Bulletins, Guides an... Finding Aid Title: ILLIAC Bulletins, Guides and Manuals, 1951-73
ID: 11/15/804
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Computer Science
Extent: 8.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: By type of material (computer) and chronological thereunder.
Subjects: Computers, Digital Computer Laboratory, Illiac Computers
Languages: English
Bulletins, Guides and Manuals including copies of Digital Computer Laboratory Bulletins 1-10 (March-November 1963), ORDVAC Manual (1951), Generalized Algebraic Translator-Compiler Manual (1961), Preliminary Guide to the Use of ATHOS (1961), Users' Manual for ALCOR-ILLINOIS-7090 ALGOL-60 Translator (1964), 1401 HAVOC System Manual (1965) and index to PORTHOS Manual (1965). ILLIAC publications include Illiac Programming Guides (1954, 1956, 1961), Elementary Description of ILLIAC (1964), Ibal ILLIAC III Basic Assembler Language (1968), ILLIAC III Programming Manual (1968), S-M-V Programming Manual (1968), and ILLIAC IV, Documents 193-198 and Final Technical Reports (1973). The series includes ILLIAC Program Library Index Codes 18-331 - with lacunae (1952-61), ILLIAC Active Program Library, Auxiliary Program Library, and Statistical Library (1957-61) and papers on ILLIAC II equipment (1958-59) and problems (1960), IBM 650 Program library (ca. 1961), and Statistical Analysis Library Tape (SALT) user manual.
On January 8, 1948, the Board of Trustees authorized the purchase of an EDVAC electronic digital computer for research program use.1 On November 19, 1948, the Board approved space for the computer project.2 On January 13, 1949, the Board reallocated funds to university staff for construction of the computer.3 By July 16, 1952, the Digital Computer Laboratory was listed in the university budget.4 In 1954, the laboratory offered "instruction in courses and supervision of theses for individuals specializing in the design and use of the digital computing machinery."5 In 1964, the name was changed from the Digital Computer Laboratory to the Department of Computer Science.6 The department teaches courses in circuit design, computer applications, computer organization, digital computer arithmetic, information retrieval, languages, numerical analysis, patters recognition, software systems, and switching an automata theory.7
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 44th Report, January 8, 1948, p. 954.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 45th Report, November 19, 1948, p. 172.
3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 45th Report, January 13, 1949, p. 204.
4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 47th Report, July 16, 1952, p. 145.
5. Graduate College Catalog, 1954-56, p. 29.
6. Board of Trustees Transactions, 53rd Report, November 24, 1964, p. 240.
7. Graduate Programs, 1972-1974, p. 59.
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Accruals: 9/63, 6/68, 7/89; 6/22/2000; 7/30/2010; 5/13/2011
Acquisition Source: 7/30/2010 5/13/2011 Illiac Program Library books 1-5 acquired from Wayne and Bonnie Lichtenberger.
Other Note: 2 Pages
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1115804.pdf
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