Oral history collection, 1990.

Nebeker, Frederik

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National Science Foundation (U.S.). Computing History Project.

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In 1989 the National Science Foundation (NSF) circulated a request for proposal (LPA 89-101) to produce a historical monograph of computing and computer science supported by the NSF. A contract was awarded in 1990 to the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) at the University of Minnesota. William Aspray, CBI's associate director, was named principal investigator. During the course of the project he became director of the Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, where he continued the project...

Aspray, William,

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Goldstein, Andrew, 1966-

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National Science Foundation (U.S.)

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Charles Babbage Institute

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Prompted by the wartime need for rapid, complex mathematical calculations, the United States government became heavily involved in computer research and development during World War II. Government agencies including the US Navy, the National Bureau of Standards, and NASA continued to sponsor computer research and development projects in the post-war period, many still related to military applications. Early government investment in computer technologies provided a basis for the nascent computer ...

Center for the History of Electrical Engineering (U.S.)

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