Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation Center records

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation Center records

1950-1962

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This set of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computation Center records spans the years 1950-1962 and documents the genesis of the Computation Center and its eventual transformation into the Information Processing Center. The Computation Center housed one of the first high-speed digital computers built by IBM with technology developed at MIT in Project Whirlwind. The purpose of the Center was to provide a means to educate faculty and students in the use of high-speed digital computers and to discover ways of incorporating computers into the fabric of everyday research work. Materials include administrative records; correspondence, memoranda, grant proposals, time reports, and other information from research projects; legal and personnel records; and minutes from the Committee on Machine Methods of Computation.

1.6 cubic feet; (1 record carton, 2 manuscript boxes)

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In 1950, Provost Julius Stratton formed the Committee on Machine Methods of Computation to study the introduction of computers for general use by faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Six members were appointed including Jay W. Forrester and Zdenek Kopal from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chia-Chiao Lin and Eric Reissner from the Department of Mathematics, and Herman Feshbach and Philip M. Morse from the Department of Physics. Philip Mo...