Harwood G. Kolsky Papers 1943 - 1998

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Harwood G. Kolsky Papers 1943 - 1998

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The Harwood G. Kolsky collection is comprised of documents related to the development of super computers, microprocessors and microcomputers, computer modeling, digital image processing, computer programming languages, as well as materials related to teaching computer architecture and computer history. The collection primarily consists of technical papers and reports, manuals, notes, promotional material, and correspondence related to Los Alamos National Laboratory and International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation.

26 linear feet; 20 cartons and one oversized box

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Computer History Museum

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Kolsky, Harwood G.

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Biography / Administrative History Harwood G. Kolsky, an emeritus professor of computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), was a physicist who became a computer scientist well before that field was a recognized department of academic learning. He worked on many early computers and their applications and architectures. Later in his career he directed a variety of projects involving programming languages, scientif...