The living legends: a discussion about the establishment of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University [videorecording] 1997

Floyd, Robert W.

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Robert W. Floyd joined the Stanford faculty in 1968 as an associate professor of computer science. He was appointed full professor in 1970 and from 1973 to 1975 he was chair of the department. He retired from Stanford in 1994. A child prodigy, Floyd graduated from high school at age 14 and earned his first bachelor's degree at the age of 17 and his second in physics in 1958, both at the University of Chicago. A ...

Feigenbaum, Edward A.

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Computer scientist. Feigenbaum received his B.S., 1956, and his Ph.D., 1959, in electrical engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology. He completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the National Physics Laboratory and in 1960 went to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1965 in the Dept. of Computer Science; he served as Director of the Stanford Computation Center from 1965 to 1968 and as chairman of the Depar...

Miller, William F. (Drummer)

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Biographical/Historical note William F. Miller received is BS (1949), MS (1951), PhD (1956) and Honorary DSc (1972) from Purdue University. He was the last faculty member recruited to Stanford University by the legendary Frederick Terman, who was then Vice President and Provost of Stanford. Miller himself later became Vice President and Provost of Stanford. He conducted research and directed many graduate students in Computer Science. As Pres...

Stanford University. Dept. of Computer Science

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Co-sponsored by AFIPS History of Computing Committee. From the guide to the "Computer Science at Stanford: The Impact of the First Ten Years" [videorecording], 1987 March 26-28, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives) ...

Herriot, John George, 1916-

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John G. Herriot earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics at the University of Manitoba in 1937 and his Ph.D. in mathematics at Brown University in 1941. He first taught at Stanford from 1942-1944, leaving to do research in the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field. He returned to Stanford in 1946 as assistant professor of mathematics, becoming full professor in 1956; he retired from teaching in 1982. He served as the first directory of the Stanford Computation Center, 1953-61, taught t...

Wiederhold, Gio.

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McCarthy, John, 1927-2011

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Head of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from the early 1960s until 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with John McCarthy, 1989 Mar. 2. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63307054 John McCarthy, after earning his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton in 1951, taught at Stanford, Dartmouth, and MIT. In 1962 he returned to Stanford as professor of computer science. From 1965 to 1980 he was organizer and director of Stanford's A...

Kacsman, Andy.

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Golub, Gene H. (Gene Howard), 1932-2007

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Gene H. Golub, 1979 June 8. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63297228 Computer science professor. From the description of Oral history interview with Gene H. Golub, 1979 May 16. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63306916 ...

Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-....

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Professor of computer science at Stanford University. From the description of Mathematical writing (CS 209) : lectures, 1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122354419 From the description of 3:16 BIBLE TEXTS ILLUMINATED production records, 1978-1996 (inclusive), 1985-1996 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398500 Professor of computer science at Stanford University, Donald Ervin Knuth was born in 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a B.S. from Case Inst...