Oral history interview with Harry D. Huskey, ca. 1976.

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Oral history interview with Harry D. Huskey, ca. 1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63295599

Huskey discusses his work on the ENIAC, ACE, and SWAC computers. As a mathematics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the Moore School of Electrical Engineering's ENIAC project in 1944, and with Arthur Burks wrote a technical description of the machine. Huskey credits much of the engineering to J. Presper Eckert, including the idea for stored programming. In 1946 Huskey went to the ACE project at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Great Britain. He tells of the University of Manchester project under the direction of Frederic Calland Williams, whose cathode ray tube Huskey recommended for the ACE. He discusses his interactions with Alan Turing, Turing's interest in artificial intelligence, and the events that led to Turing's resignation from the NPL.

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

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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