Russian Visit to U. S. Computers

In April and May, 1959 an exchange of visits by computer experts took place between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. This article will describe the series of negotiations which led up to this exchange and will also describe the visit of the Russian delegation to America. The visit of the U.S. delegation to Russia will be reported separately in a joint article edited by Willis Ware that will appear in the March, 1960 issue of these TRANSACTIONS.