University of Michigan. Logic of Computers Group

Informal University of Michigan faculty group interested in the study and application of computers.

From the description of Logic of Computers Group (University of Michigan) records, 1950-1979. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421516

The Logic of Computers Group LoCG) at the University of Michigan was established in 1956 as an informal group of faculty members from various departments who were interested in studying the logical formalisms related to computers and natural systems. The group was directed by philosophy professor Arthur Burks and early an worked out Of the Operations Research Department of the Engineering Research Institute. In 1957, Burks and Gordon Peterson, of the Phonetics Laboratory in the Department of Speech, petitioned the graduate school, and along with five other professors were constituted a committee with power to award advanced graduate degrees in "Communications Sciences." The program was chaired by Peterson until it achieved departmental status in 1965. After a year under an interim chairman, Burks chaired the "Computer and Communications Sciences" Department until 1971. The LoCG was an important component of both the early program and, later, the department. Although it worked out of its own computing center and was funded entirely by grants from governmental agencies, it provided the department with faculty expertise and produced a large percentage of the departmental PhDs.

From the guide to the Logic of Computers Group (University of Michigan) Records, 1950-1979, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)