Description: Papers of James Evans Robertson (1924-93), M.S. '48, Ph.D. '52, professor of computer science (1952-90), including biographical data (1949-93); publications on the arithmetric design of electronic computers (1952-93); logs of computer runs (1950-52); correspondence about computer development, travel, college & departmental administration, committees, & meetings (1947, 1949-90); photographs (1953-70); certificates (1942-55); computer publicity (1949-56); visits to Russian computer centers (1958); Fulbright research on computers at the University of Sydney (1962-63); Illiac I, II & III, & IV (1954-73); Digital Computer Laboratory & departmental plans; Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers meetings & publications (1967-89); Brookhaven National Laboratory (1969-83); computer history & design (1970-85);drum data (1950's); N.S.F. contracts (1964-83); course material (1955-88); codes for computer programs (1950s); research papers; drawings; & plans.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Material, Box
Biographical, 1
Publications, 1
Correspondence, 1-3
Photography, 3
Subject Files
1942-62, 3
1962-65, 4
1965-72, 5
1972-88, 6-7
1948-53, 11
1953-58, 12
1958-70, 13
Course Material, 8-9, 13
Research Papers, Publications, and Reports, 9-10, 13
Computer Logbooks and Manuals, 14-15
Computer Codes, 16
Oversize, 10, 16
INDEX
Adder program 4, 9, 15
Arithmetic 2-6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15
Ballistic Research Laboratory 11
Biographical material 1, 2
Circuits 3, 4, 7, 9-13
Speed Independent Circuits 3
Computer History 5, 6
Computer Program Codes 15
Computer Science (CS) Classes 6, 7
Computer Science Department 5
Correspondence 1, 2, 6, 10
Course Material 1, 6, 13
Courses 4
Designs 9
Digital Computer 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14
Digital Computer Laboratory (DCL) 2-4, 6, 10-12
Division 3, 4, 10, 11, 15
Drum 2, 10-16
Electrical Engineering (EE) Courses 5, 7, 13
Electronic Computer 3
Electronic Digital Computer 8, 9, 14
Engineering Education 3, 4
Error Correcting Codes 4
Illiac computer
Illiac 2-5, 7-10, 12-15
Illiac I 7
Illiac II 4, 7, 8, 12
Illiac III 4, 5
Illiac IV 15
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4-6, 12
Lecture Notes 7, 10, 13
Logbooks 14
Manuals 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15
Meagher, Ralph 6, 13
Multiplication 10, 15, 16
NSF 6, 11
Office of Naval Research (ONR) 11
Ordvac 2, 3, 5, 9, 14, 15
Photos 2
Poppelbaum, Wolfgang 6, 7, 14, 16
Publications 1-3, 7, 13
Research Papers, Publications & Reports 7
Research Reports 5
Russian Trip 3
Shop 4, 12
Soviet Union 3
U.S.S.R. 12
Specifications 3, 11, 13
Subject File 2-5, 9-11
Technical Progress Report 10, 11
Teletype 10, 16
Trip Reports 3, 4, 9
University of Michigan 3, 11
University of Sydney 3, 4
Von Neumann 3
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