Indiana University Computing Services records, 1954-1993, bulk 1965-1990

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Indiana University Computing Services records, 1954-1993, bulk 1965-1990

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Collection consists of records generated between 1954 and 1993 by University Computing Services. The Research Computing Center was established in 1954 and evolved into the Marshal H. Wrubel Center in 1973 and after 1981 University Computing Services. The collection is organized in three series. The Director's correspondence series consists almost entirely of outgoing correspondence from the director's office, arranged chronologically. Directors represented in the collection include the Center's first directors, Lynne Merritt and Marshal H. Wrubel as well as subsequent directors. The Minutes series, arranged chronologically, consists of minutes of the senior staff meetings and the final series, Reports, contains UCS's annual reports from 1958-59 through 1992-93. Also included in the series are the proceedings of an annual conference on instructional and academic computer applications which UCS helped organize, reports from the Research Computing Center Committee, reports submitted to the National Science Foundation in support of grant applications, and study reports on instructional computing. The series is arranged alphabetically.

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University Computing Services (Indiana University)

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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 f...