Margaret R. Fox papers 1935-1976

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Margaret R. Fox papers 1935-1976

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Collection contains records collected by Margaret Fox in an effort to document some of the early computer development activities of NBS. The collection contains reports, including the original report on the ENIAC, UNIVAC, and many early in-house National Bureau of Standards (NBS) activity reports, memoranda on SEAC, SWAC, and DYSEAC, seminar and conference materials--including Samuel Alexander's notes from the Moore School of Engineering course, "Theory and techniques for design of electronic digital computers" (known as the "Moore School Lectures")--a history of SEAC, DYSEAC, and SWAC, programming instructions for the UNIVAC, LARC, and MIDAC, patent evaluations and disclosures relevant to computers, system descriptions, speeches and articles written by Margaret Fox's colleagues, and correspondence of Alexander, Fox, and Williams, as well as that of several NBS offices.

9 boxes (8.25 cubic feet)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute.

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Margaret R. Fox graduated from Wisconsin State College in 1940. She joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943 and was stationed at the Naval Research Station in Washington. She continued to work there as an electronics engineer in radar after her discharge in 1946. In 1951 she joined the National Bureau of Standards as a member of the technical staff of the Electronic Computer Laboratory. Later, she joined the Research Information Center and Advisory Service on Information Processing (R...

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