Oral history interview with F.J. Corbato, 1989 Apr. 18 and 1990 Nov. 14.

International Business Machines Corporation

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International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in New York State on June 16, 1911 under the name Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. In 1922, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. purchased all of the shares of Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft. In 1924 the official name of the company was changed to International Business Machines Corporation. In 1933, IBM CEO Thomas Watson ordered the merger of IBM subsidiaries in Germany (Optima, Degemag, Holgemag, Dehomag) under the name De...

United States. Department of Defense. Information Processing Techniques Office

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In 1964, the Behavioral Sciences, Command and Control Research Office was split into the Behavioral Sciences Office (BSO) that covered the behavioral science functions and the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) that took over the Command and Control Research (CCR) functions.The Information Processing Techniques Office was dedicated to developing advanced information processing and computer communications technologies for critical military and national security applications. In its a...

General Electric Company. Computer Dept.

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Licklider, J. C. R.

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First Information Processing Techniques Office director. From the description of Oral history interview with J. C. R. Licklider, 1988 Oct. 28. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63309584 ...

AT & T Bell Laboratories

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Excerpts of a series of interviews with prominent figures in the development of the UNIX operating system. From the description of Release.0, / the beginning, 1989. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283834 ...

Corbató, F. J.

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with F.J. Corbato, 1989 Apr. 18 and 1990 Nov. 14. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63277419 ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Computer Science

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Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985

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Morse died in 1985. From the description of Autobiographical data, ca. 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81716656 Philip McCord Morse was born August 6, 1903, in Shreveport, Louisiana. His parents, Allen Crafts Morse, a telephone engineer, and Edith McCord Morse, soon moved to Cleveland where he grew up. In 1921 Philip Morse started attending Case Institute, but he took the following year off to work in the Radiolectric Shop that he owned with friends. Upon h...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computation Center

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In 1950, Provost Julius Stratton formed the Committee on Machine Methods of Computation to study the introduction of computers for general use by faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Six members were appointed including Jay W. Forrester and Zdenek Kopal from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chia-Chiao Lin and Eric Reissner from the Department of Mathematics, and Herman Feshbach and Philip M. Morse from the Department of Physics. Philip Mo...

Honeywell Inc.

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The Multics operating system was developed at MIT's Project MAC in cooperation with Bell Laboratories and General Electric beginning in 1964. It was written in PL/I, a high level programming language, and designed to adapt to future needs. When Honeywell took over General Electric's computer section it marketed Multics as a commercial product. From the description of Multics records, 1965-1982. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63295362 From the gui...

McCarthy, John, 1927-2011

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Head of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from the early 1960s until 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with John McCarthy, 1989 Mar. 2. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63307054 John McCarthy, after earning his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton in 1951, taught at Stanford, Dartmouth, and MIT. In 1962 he returned to Stanford as professor of computer science. From 1965 to 1980 he was organizer and director of Stanford's A...

Project MAC (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Norberg, Arthur L. (Arthur Lawrence), 1938-

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The DARPA Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) focused on inventing the networking, computing, and software technologies to ensure Department of Defense military superiority. From the guide to the Arthur L. Norberg and William Aspray DARPA project research files., 1960-1989, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. [cbi]) Technology, research administration. Associate Professor, History of Technology, University of Minnesota, from 1981; Execu...