[SIGCIS-Members] Question about von Neumann papers

[David Alan Grier]

Mai,
	Bil Aspray may have other ideas about these papers.  I would point  
you to his book of von Neumann papers in the Babbage Series.  There is  
a draft of the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC in the Library of  
Congress.  It is in Herman Goldstine's hand.  In my last  
correspondence with him, Goldstine claimed that it was the original  
copy.  I have not done the work to see how much it differs from the  
mimeographed version.
David


On May 28, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Mai Sugimoto wrote:

> Dear Sigcis members,
>
> I have questions about "Urtext Edition" of these historical papers:
>
> 1) John von Neumann, "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC"
> 2) Arthur W. Burks, Herman H.Goldstine, John von Neumann, "Preliminary
> Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing
> Instrument"
>
> Recently my colleague and I are doing translation of these papers into
> Japanese for publication. In order to make the translation as correct
> as possible, we are looking for the version that is the closest to the
> original one.
>
> About 1), we are using this version so far:
> http://www.virtualtravelog.net/entries/2003-08-TheFirstDraft.pdf
> It seems that this version is a finely edited one.
> Does anyone have the original typescript of this paper?
> Or does anyone know where the typescript is?
>
> About 2), we are using 'A.H.Taub, ed: John von Neumann Collected
> Works' and also referring this version stored at U. of Michigan:
> http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/3972
> Does anyone have some information on other version of this paper?
>
> I would really appreciate any kind of information about them.
> Thank you.
>
> Mai
>
> -----
> Mai Sugimoto
> Ph.D Student, Program of Philosophy and History of Science,
> Kyoto University, Japan
> nix.pura at gmail.com
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