OK. (Email conatct info shared privately with Mai). Dag
On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Chuck House <housec1839@gmail.com> wrote:
George Dyson has given a number of talks about this book, the process by which it was written, and the sources. A key set of sources were available from family and friends, previously unaccessed. My strong hunch re your question is that "lots of the unreferenced information" is of this type. My understanding (or maybe inferred belief) is that much of this material is in process of being given to (or maybe has been given to) the Princeton libraries, but it likely is not yet indexed, catelogued, or assentioned, which could account for your difficulty in locating some of it.
I am pretty sure that Dyson's contact info is available via the Computer History Museum. Dag?
Best regards, Chuck House
On 9/1/15 7:56 AM, "Members on behalf of Mai Sugimoto" <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org on behalf of nix.pura@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear SIGCIS members:
I found George Dyson's book, Turing's Cathedral (2012), seems to show the original hand-written version of the "First Draft" (probably?) in a picture page, which is on 13 pages after p.136. Since the caption says the picture is from Princeton University Libraries, I contacted archivists of the Libraries to access the manuscript. But the archivists answered they cannot find any material like the picture within the collection or elsewhere in related collection. I also asked to the IAS Library, but they cannot find anything, either. Then, as the archivists suggested, I contacted the publisher to send a message to Mr. Dyson. They told me just a forwarding address, so I sent a regular mail to Mr. Dyson in last February to make sure of the location of the manuscript.
I have not received the reply yet. I am stranded. Does anyone know contact information of Dyson, or have any idea about the picture on the book or the original hand-written version of the draft? My colleagues and I have been working of a Japanese translation of von Neumann's original paper. Dyson's book is very interesting, but it seems to have a lot of unreferenced information, so my collaborators and I think that we should be careful to handle this book in the bibliographical comments.
Best,
Mai Sugimoto Associate Professor Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University 3-3-35, Yamate-cho, Suita-shi Osaka, Japan 564-8680 msgmt@kansai-u.ac.jp _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
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