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Electronic machinery for handling information, and its uses in insurance. Offprint

Electronic machinery for handling information, and its uses in insurance. Offprint by Berkeley, Edmund C.

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Title
Electronic machinery for handling information, and its uses in insurance. Offprint
Author
Berkeley, Edmund C.
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
1947. Berkeley, Edmund C. (1909-88). Electronic machinery for handling information, and its uses in insurance. Offprint from Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America 48 (1947). 36-52pp. 228 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers, a few tiny spots, almost invisible staple-holes in front wrapper. Very good copy. Former owner's name-stamp (Clifford J. Maloney) on wrappers. First Edition, Offprint Issue. The first published paper on the commercial application of electronic / electromechanical computing in private industry (outside of the telephone company). Drawing on material that he would later publish in his famous Giant Brains or Machines that Think (1949), Berkeley described the four large-scale computing machines then in operation-MIT's Differential Analyzer; Harvard's Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator; the Moore School's ENIAC; and Bell Laboratories' Relay Calculator-and discussed the machines' information-processing capabilities and their potential uses in the insurance industry. "It is natural to call these machines mechanical or electronic brains and to speak of them as machinery that thinks. This new machinery is certain to have far-reaching effects in all fields where the handling of information is the bulk of the work. . . . Much of the material in this paper is taken from a forthcoming book on the subject by the present writer, and is used by special permission of the publisher" (p. 36). Berkeley, a seminal figure in the history of modern computing, was introduced to computing (using punched-card machine methods) while working as an actuary at Prudential Insurance. In 1942 he joined the Navy and was assigned to the Harvard Computation Laboratory, where he worked with Howard Aiken on the Harvard Mark II. In 1946 Berkeley returned to Prudential where he helped create a prototype premium billing trial for the Harvard Mark I and participated in studies that led to Prudential's purchase of one of the first UNIVAC I computers. He also began working on Giant Brains and in 1947 founded the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1948 he left Prudential to found his own company, and in 1951 he began editing and publishing Computers and Automation (later renamed Computers and People), the first periodical specifically devoted to computing. He also headed his own publishing firm, consulted for industry, and invented and sold several build-it-yourself electronic computers and small robots (Simon, Squee, Tyniac, Brainiac, etc.) as educational tools. In his later years he became known as the conscience of the computer industry through his often-expressed belief that computers should be used not for military or destructive purposes, but only for the benefit of society. .
Typed Letter Signed

Typed Letter Signed by BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913 - 1976)

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Typed Letter Signed
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BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913 - 1976)
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
1964. framed. very good. Typed signed letter from English composer to the Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant in 1964. In the letter Britten is responding to a letter from the Secretary General regarding a request for a musical composition for an upcoming celebration. Letter framed with a black and white photograph of Britten conducting. Please inquire for more information. Edward Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945). *** U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian as well as Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.
Collection of 25 pieces from the annual Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books exhibition catalogues

Collection of 25 pieces from the annual Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books exhibition catalogues

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Collection of 25 pieces from the annual Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books exhibition catalogues
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Rounce & Coffin Club, 1971. 23 titles in 25 volumes (2 duplicates); illustrations; all in original printed wrappers with the exception of the 1971 number, which is bound in the original linen over boards in a grey printed dust jacket. Sizes vary, mostly 12mo or small 8vo; very good or better.
Eine Nacht in Venedig [Piano-vocal score]

Eine Nacht in Venedig [Piano-vocal score] by STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899

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Eine Nacht in Venedig [Piano-vocal score]
Author
STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Leipzig ..: Aug. Cranz [PN C. 26000], 1884. Quarto. Half gray cloth with black paper boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3-141, [i] (blank) pp. Occasional performance markings in pencil. With multiple ownership stamps of Gustav Kotany and signature of Otto Radl to endpapers, title, and first page of music. Slightly browned; minor creasing to upper outer corners; minor tape repair to one leaf; some ownership stamps crossed out. First Edition. Weinmann p. 134. Eine Nacht in Venedig, to a libretto by Zell and Genée after E. Cormon and M. Carré's Le château Trompette, was first performed in Berlin at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches on 3 October 1883 and in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien on 9 October 1883.
Architect Errant

Architect Errant by Williams-Ellis, Clough

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Architect Errant
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Williams-Ellis, Clough
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780094574809
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Constable, 1971. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 284pp+ index. Pages tanned, else a very good hardback in a lightly worn jacket that is sunned on the spine. Signed by Williams-Ellis on the title page.
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DER WELTKRIEG 1939-1945 IN SEINER RAUHEN WIRKLICHKEIT : DAS FRONTKÄMPFER-BILDWERK : RUND 800 ORIGINALAUFNAHMEN IN SCHWARZ-WEISS UND 12 FARBPHOTOS FAST AUSNAHMSLOS VON IM EINSATZ GESTANDENEN KRIEGSBILD-BERICHTERSTATTERN SOWIE ERINNERUNGSBLATT

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DER WELTKRIEG 1939-1945 IN SEINER RAUHEN WIRKLICHKEIT : DAS FRONTKÄMPFER-BILDWERK : RUND 800 ORIGINALAUFNAHMEN IN SCHWARZ-WEISS UND 12 FARBPHOTOS FAST AUSNAHMSLOS VON IM EINSATZ GESTANDENEN KRIEGSBILD-BERICHTERSTATTERN SOWIE ERINNERUNGSBLATT
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Müchen: Justin Moser. Hardcover. Octavo, 624 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green cloth; slight shelf wear. Text block has grey tinted top edge; spotting to edges. Illustrated: b&w and color. Text in German. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1399678. FP New Rockville Stock.
The Shattered Horse
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The Shattered Horse by S. P Somtow

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The Shattered Horse
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S. P Somtow
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
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9780312937300
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Fine
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Very mild shelfwear else fine. Stated first printing; in archival protection.

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