Oral history interview with Edward A. Feigenbaum, 1979 June 12.

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Oral history interview with Edward A. Feigenbaum, 1979 June 12.

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Feigenbaum discusses the formation and growth of the Stanford University Computer Science Dept. and its acquisition of facilities. He recalls how International Business Machines (IBM) and Control Data Corporation replaced urroughs as the university's computer vendor because of the need for large- cale computing. He explains his effort as head of the Computation Center to entralize all university computing activities, and the failure of that effort n the 1970s with the introduction of minicomputers on campus.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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