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Dertouzos Lecture Series 1976-1979

Fredrick P. Brooks, Jr. , Kenan Professor of C.S. and Chai or the Department, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
The Proof of the Pudding
Date: 0 1977

Joseph F. Traub , Head of the Department, Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University
On the Fast Computation of Algebraic Functions with Applications
Date: February 8 1977

Lewis M. Branscomb , Vice President and Chief Scientist, IBM
Small is Beautiful
Date: February 15 1979

Kenneth H. Olsen , President, Digital Equipment Corportation
What I Think I Saw in Early Years of Computers
Date: February 23 1978

Donald E. Knuth , Computer Science Department, Stanford University
An Analysis of Alpha-B Pruning
Date: February 24 1976

B.O. Evans , Vice President, Engineering Programming & Technology, IBM
The Applications Revolution Promised by Communications Satellites
Date: March 9 1978

Niklaus Wirth , Professor, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
A Language for Modular Multprogramming
Date: March 22 1977

Gene M. Amdahl , Chairman of the Board, Amdahl Corporation
Large Commercial Systems, Their Architectural and Technological Evolution
Date: March 23 1976

Allen Newell , University Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
On Production Systems in Search of an Architecture for Human Cognition
Date: April 4 1978

Alan J. Perlis , Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
The Influence of VLSI Programming Languages and Their Processors
Date: April 10 1979

C. Gordon Bell , Vice President of Engineering, Digital Eqipment Corporation
Small Computer Architecture (based on th DEC PDP-11 Computer)
Date: April 27 1976

Butler W. Lampson , Senior Research Fellow, Xerox Corporation
Building Programs
Date: May 1 1979

John Cocke , Fellow, International Business Machines Corporation
Compiler Optimization
Date: May 2 1978

Michael O. Rabin , The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Probabilistic Algorithms: Can Chaos Produce Certainty?
Date: October 13 1976

Ruth M. Davis , Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Education, Department of Defense
The Disappearance of Computers and Software as We Know Them Today
Date: October 17 1978

Edsger W. Dijkstra , Burroughs Research Fellow, The Netherlands
The Interplay Between Mathematics and Programming
Date: October 20 1977

Herbert A. Simon , Professor of Computer Science and Psychlogy, Carnegie-Mellon University
Learning from Examples and Learning by Doing
Date: November 2 1978

Maurice V. Wilkes , Dept. Head, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Early Computer Development in Cambridge
Date: November 8 1977

Lawrence G. Roberts , Chairman, Telnet Communications Corporation
Future Networks
Date: November 8 1979

C.A. R. Hoare , Department of Computer Science, The Queen's University, Belfast
Communicating Sequential Processes
Date: November 16 1976

Kenneth E. Iverson , IBM Fellow, IBM Watson Research Center
APL as a Mathematical Notation
Date: December 4 1979

Ivan E. Sutherland , Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology
The Integrated Circuit Revolution is Only Half Over
Date: December 6 1977

Juris Hartmanis , Professor and Chairman Dept. of C.S., Cornell University
On the Nature of Computer Science and it's Paradigms
Date: December 7 1978

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