System Development Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.) Records, 1957-1993

System Development Corporation evolved out of the System Development Division of the RAND Corporation. This division, and later the independent company, were in the business of studying how humans and machines (especially computers and sophisticated electronics) interacted. The System Development Division was spun off in 1957, and became the non-profit company named SDC, or System Development Corporation. SDC became a for-profit operation in 1968, and was acquired by Burroughs Corporation in 198...

Center for the Study of Language and Information (U.S.)

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Tukey, John Wilder, 1915-

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Topologist. From the description of Oral history interview with John Wilder Tukey, 1984 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154352847 From the description of Oral history interview with John Wilder Tukey, 1984 Apr. 11. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63309558 One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. ...

Kerns, John.

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Schwartz, Eric

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Hewitt, Carl

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Abbs, James H., 1941-....

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Grosz, Barbara J.

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Hudspeth, A. James

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Perry, John, 1943-....

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Wood, John E.

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Smith, Charles S.

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Mueller, George.

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Pierce, John R., 1947-

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York, Carl.

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Stanford University. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

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The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. Areas of ongoing interest at CCRMA include: composition, applications hardware, applications software, synthesis techniques and algorithms, physical modeling, real-time controllers, signal processing, digital recording and editing, psychoacoustics and mu...

Chowning, John M.

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John M. Chowning, professor emeritus of music at Stanford, developed the technique for creating digital sounds in the late 1960s which was patented and then licensed to Yamaha in 1973. He earned his bachelor of music at Wittenberg University in 1959, studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1966. He was the founding director in 1975 of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. From the description of John M. Chowning...

Brady, Michael, 1945-

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Jacobsen, Stephen C.

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Chudnovsky, D. (David), 1947-

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Dolby, J. L.

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System Development Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.)

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SDF was created in 1969 as a non-profit funding organization during the transition of the System Development Corporation (SDC) to for-profit status. The SDF Board of Trustees gave its initial grants to non-profit organizations, particularly Cal Tech, U.C. Berkeley, The Rand Corporation, and Stanford University. They backed research primarily in information sciences and the human-machine interface, the areas of expertise of SDC. In the first year SDF funded over $11 million in research; in the ne...

Graybiel, Ann.

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Crick, Francis, 1916-

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Barwise, Jon

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Perkel, Donald.

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Freedman, David

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Tyler, Ralph W. (Ralph Winfred), 1902-1994

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Educator and university administrator. A.B., Doane College, 1921. A.M., University of Nebraska, 1923. Ph. D. University of Chicago, 1927. Professor of education, University of Chicago, 1938-1953. Chairman, Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1938-1948. University Examiner, University of Chicago, 1948-1953. Dean, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1948-1953. Director, Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, 1953-1967. From the description of ...

McCarthy, John J., 1953-....

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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...

System Development Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.) Records, 1957-1993

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