Oral history interview with Arthur Porter, ca. 1976.

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Oral history interview with Arthur Porter, ca. 1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63283032

Porter discusses his work in Britain and North America with analog computers before and during World War II. As a student at Manchester in 1932, his interest in computing led him to Douglas Hartree, who was building a differential analyzer based on Vannevar Bush's machine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Porter received his master's and doctorate degrees under Hartree, and was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in 1937 to study at MIT for a year. His task there involved the problem of feeding information on punched paper tape into the Rockefeller Differential Analyzer. He describes Bush as a dynamic and attractive leader.

Sound cassette : 1 (60 min.) : analog, mono.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7885069

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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