Oral history interview with Margaret R. Fox, 1983 Apr. 13.

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Oral history interview with Margaret R. Fox, 1983 Apr. 13.

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Fox describes how her Navy service in World War II led to a career in computing. She discusses the negotiations between the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and the National Bureau of Standards, as an agent for the Bureau of Census, over the completion of the first UNIVAC computer, and the internal development at NBS of SEAC and SWAC. Fox recounts her involvement in the National Joint Computer Committee which led to her work in the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and describes the role of AFIPS in the International Information Processing Conference in Paris in 1959.

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