Oral history interview with J. F. Traub, 1985 Mar. 29.

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Oral history interview with J. F. Traub, 1985 Mar. 29.

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Traub discusses institutions in computing. He begins by discussing why computer science has developed as a discipline at some institutions, but not at others. Institutions that are highlighted include: Stanford, Berkeley, the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Carnegie-Mellon. Traub describes his experiences as chairman of computer science departments at Carnegie-Mellon and later Columbia.

Sound cassettes : 2 (60 min. each) : analog, mono.Transcript : 50 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7885051

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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