[SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators

[Brian E Carpenter]

Herbert,

As I implied yesterday, the influence of that conference was, as far as I 
can tell, mainly due to Pierre de Latil's popular science book. The conference itself was important in kicking off awareness in the French scientific community, but not (IMHO) elsewhere. [See my article cited yesterday.] Also, Bowden was there, two years before "Faster than Thought".

I met two of the participants later in life (Tom Kilburn and Pierre Germain) and attended lectures by another (Maurice Wilkes).

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 18-Mar-22 22:55, herbert.bruderer at bluewin.ch wrote:
> These proceedings in French of a large European conference are almost unknown:
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> Pérès, Joseph (ed.): Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine, Paris, 8–13 janvier 1951, Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, No. 37, Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris 1953, xix, 570 pages
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> see
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> *2017*
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> The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence? | blog at CACM | Communications 
of the ACM <https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/222486-the-birthplace-of-artificial-intelligence/fulltext>
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> *November 3, 2017*
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> Herbert
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>     I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.
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>     Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.
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>      1. Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.)
>      2. Are there existing papers on this subject?
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