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[41] Plans for a National Physics Information System, Report ID 68-6, Amer. Inst. of
Physics, March 1968.
[42] Fundamentals, Chapter 1 of Handbook of Physics, Part I — Mathematics (E.U.
Condon and Hugh Odishaw, eds), 2d Ed., Mac Graw-Hill, New York 1967.
[43] Computers – Past and Future, Computers and Automation 18, Jan. 1969.
[44] Archaeology of Computers, Communications ACM 15, July 1972.
[45] Reflections, Messages, Remarks, Communications ACM 15, July 1972.
[46] Computer Photocomposition of Technical Text (with Judith Y. Kirk), Communications
ACM 16, June 1973.
[47] End-Running Human Intelligence. in Beyond Calculation – The Next Fifty Years of
Computing (eds. P.J. Denning and R.M. Metcalfe, 1997 Springer Verlag New York,
pp. 127–134.
(e) Reminiscences
[48] Afterword to Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums, eds. Dierker, E. and
Sigmund, K., Springer Verlag Wien New York (1998), pp. 469–470.
[49] Persönliche Erinnerungen an 1938, Internat. Math. Nachrichten 188 (2001) 1–7.
(f) Editorial Work
[50] Editor, Journal of the ACM, Volume 1–6 (1954–59).
[51] Editor, Advances in Computers, Volumes 1–9 (Academic Press, 1960–69).
References
[A] Sigmund, K. (1998), Menger’s Ergebnisse — a biographical introduction, in Ergebnisse eines
Mathematischen Kolloquiums, Springer Verlag, Wien New York, pp. 5–31
[B] Franz Alt’s obituary in the New York Times (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=franz-l-alt&pid=152715888)
[C] Oral History interview transcript with Franz Alt, February and March 1969, American Inst.
Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives (http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/24187 1.html)
[D] Pinl, M. and Dick, A., Kollegen in einer dunklen Zeit, Jahresber. DMV 75 (1974) p. 183.
[E] Goldstine, H., The computer from Pascal to von Neumann, Princeton UP (1972).
[F] “A Conversation with Franz Alt”, May 19, 1997, with Annice Alt, Seymour Kass, Berthold
Schweizer, Abe Sklar [recollections of Karl Menger, the Menger Colloquium, Kurt Gödel,
Abraham Wald and the University of Vienna prior to 1938]. Archives of Scientific Philosophy,
document number ASP MC 01-02.
[G] “Franz Alt interview”, January 23 and February 2, 2006. Atsushi Akera, Franz Alt. ACM
digital library, DOI 10.1145/1141880,1141881.
Authors’ address:
Karl Sigmund, Walter Schachermayer: Fakultät für Mathematik der Universität
Wien. Nordbergstr. 15, A 1090 Wien. email {karl.sigmund,walter.schachermayer}
@univie.ac.at.
Josef Teichmann: Institut für Mathematik, ETH Zürich. Rämistrasse 101, CH-
8092 Zürich. email josef.teichmann@math.ethz.ch.
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