Oral history interview with J. F. Traub, 1984 Apr. 5.

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Oral history interview with J. F. Traub, 1984 Apr. 5.

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The interview ranges from Traub's upbringing and early education to his first full-time job at Bell Laboratories, but the bulk of the interview concerns his graduate education at Columbia University and his work at the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory. Traub devotes the first part of the interview to his family's escape from Germany in 1938, his education in New York City Public Schools, and his college education at City University of New York (CUNY). He then turns to his graduate education at Columbia University. In 1955 he began working at the Watson Computing Laboratory. He discusses the work environment there in the mid-1950s and his own research on the IBM 650 as a Watson Fellow in 1957.

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