Automatic Differentiation (AD) seems like the swiss army knife of quickly solving optimization problems (involving partial derivatives) on a computer. I was looking at the website dedicated to AD. It lists an early paper
Louis B. Rall, George F. Corliss: An Introduction to Automatic Differentiation SIAM, 1996
I am not able to find this paper in its entirety. The first two pages appear to be available at this website: http://dennisdarland.com/my_sw_projects/intro_auto_2pages.pdf.
Can you help find a copy of this paper (hopefully not behind a paywall)?
@Jean-Claude Arbaut suggested that I answer my own question.
This paper is available in its entirety as the Chapter 1 of Computational Differentiation: Techniques, Applications, and Tools: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Differentiation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 12-14, 1996.
It is available for reading on archive.org here.
The paper is one of the best introductions to the automatic differentiation technique.