Walter L. Anderson papers, 1942-1955.

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Walter L. Anderson papers, 1942-1955.

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Correspondence, diagrams, notes, memoranda, reports, and photographs relating to Engineering Research Associates and Remington Rand. The collection includes records about design standards, contract administration, the Arlington facility and personnel, accelerometers, private line communication for air traffic control, an electronic counting distributor, and computer-related products.

0.4 cubic ft.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Anderson, Walter L. (Walter Leonard), 1922-

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Anderson joined Engineering Research Associates in 1946 and worked as a design engineer. He later transferred from St. Paul to the Arlington, VA office and worked in sales. He was one of the founders of General Kinetics, Inc. in 1955 and became its president in 1965. From 1962 to 1964 he was chairman of the IEEE Professional Group on Electronic Computers (now the IEEE Computer Society). He served as director of American Federation of Information Processing Societies and held many committee posts...

Engineering research associates

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Early computer manufacturing firm. From the description of Engineering Research Associates records, 1945-1956. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62435921 During the Second World War, the Navy recognized that the computer, with its ability to rapidly manipulate data streams, was a natural tool for encoding and decoding enemy messages. In 1944 and 1945 it sponsored a number of research projects in this area. Its most successful unit was l...

Remington Rand, inc

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