Oral history interview with Ethel C. Marden, 1983 Oct. 20.

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Oral history interview with Ethel C. Marden, 1983 Oct. 20.

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Marden discusses the early use of computers by the U.S. government as seen from the National Bureau of Standards, where she was employed following World War II. She discusses the results of the construction of the Standards Eastern Computer (SEAC) and points to the prominent role in its design of people who had worked on ENIAC. Marden describes the enthusiasm and work environment of the SEAC project, including accommodations for women to hold professional positions at the same time they were raising families.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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United States. National Bureau of Standards.

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After World War II the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was charged with the task of following developments in computing. In response, NBS began to index and abstract books, journals, reports and other literature covering a broad range of computer-related topics beginning in the mid-1940s. Eventually the enormity of the task forced NBS to abandon this work in 1978. From the description of Computer Literature Collection, 1956-1978. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat re...

Marden, Ethel C.

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Computer programmer. From the description of Oral history interview with Ethel C. Marden, 1983 Oct. 20. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63282469 ...

Aspray, William,

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