University Computing Services (Indiana University)

The Research Computing Center was established in 1954 after IU President Herman B Wells, in his 1953 State of the University Address, spoke of the need for more advanced computing equipment.

Lynne Merritt served as acting director when the Center was first established but the following year Marshal H. Wrubel was appointed as the Center's first official director, for whom the Center was named in 1973. In the 1970s the Center's mission changed and it was then responsible for providing not only high-speed mainframe computers for research purposes, but also terminals in various locations around the Bloomington campus from which users could access the large central computers as well as computing services for regional campuses. In 1981 the Center combined with other groups to form the larger Bloomington Academic Computing Services (BACS), later renamed University Computing Services.

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