Oral history interview with Peter C. Patton, 2000 Aug. 30.

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Oral history interview with Peter C. Patton, 2000 Aug. 30.

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Patton talks about his education at Harvard, his involvement in the development of PLATO courses in the humanities, and his perspectives on the software industry and patenting. Patton also shares his experience with IBM 650, CDC 6600, and Cray installations on several university campuses, his role in Project Safeguard, and his design of the Hennepin Justice Information System.

Sound cassettes : 2 (110 min. each) : analog, mono.Transcript : 69 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Patton was director of the University Computing Center and the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute at the University of Minnesota. He held positions at the Wichita division of the Boeing Company, the Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City, Sperry Univac, Analyst International, and the Microelectronic Computer Technology Corporation in Austin, TX. From the description of Harvard mathematics class notebooks, 1956. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63294317 ...