Collection is largely biographical and includes photographs, his C.V., biographies and obituaries, and Samuel's annotated copy of LEES' GUIDE TO THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, 1953.

Arthur L. Samuel earned his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926. Samuel was on staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories and at IBM in Poughkeepsie prior to joining the computer science faculty at Stanford in 1966.

0.25 Linear feet

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