Charles Babbage Institute Oral history collection, 1979-1991.

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Charles Babbage Institute Oral history collection, 1979-1991.

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This collection contains transcripts of oral history interviews selected for their relevance to the history of computer science at Stanford, including the development of the computer science department and Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Persons interviewed are Saul Amarel, Bruce G. Buchanan, Vinton Cerf, Edward A. Feigenbaum, Louis Fein, Alexandra I. Forsythe, Gene H. Golub, John McCarthy, William F. Miller, Allen Newell, Nils J. Nilsson, Bernard M. Oliver, Dabbala R. Reddy, Joseph F. Traub, and Terry Winograd. There is also a transcript of the Burroughs B 5000 Conference held on September 6, 1985.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8031078

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Miller, William F. (William Fowler), 1768-1818

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William F. Miller, who holds three degrees in physics from Purdue University (B.S. 1949, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1956), joined Stanford in 1965 as a professor of computer science. He was also appointed professor and head of the computation group at the Stanford Linear Acceleration Center in 1965. In 1968 he was named associate provost for computing and in 1970 he became the first vice president for research. From 1971 to 1978 he was vice president and provost of the university. From the des...

Winograd, Terry

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Terry Winograd, 1991 Dec. 11. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63309580 ...

Cerf, Vinton G., 1943-

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf, 1990 Apr. 24. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63276494 ...

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (also known as Stanford AI Lab or SAIL) is the artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory of Stanford University. It was started in 1963 by John McCarthy, after he moved from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Stanford. From 1965 to 1980, it was housed in the D.C. Power building, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Stanford. During this period it was one of the leading centers for AI research. In 1980, its activitie...

Reddy, D. Raj 1937-

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McCarthy, John, 1956-....

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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 ...

Newell, Allen

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Allen Newell, 1991 June 10-12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63277416 Allen Newell was born in San Francisco, California in 1927 and died in Pittsburgh, PA in 1992. He was the Carnegie Mellon University U. A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science. Newell had been a faculty of CMU as professor from 1961 until his death on July 19, 1992. He ...

Oliver, Bernard M., 1916-....

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Computer industry executive. From the description of Oral history interview with Bernard M. Oliver, 1985 Aug. 9, 1986 Apr. 14. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63288457 Biographical/Historical Sketch Oliver earned his a.b. in engineering at Stanford University in 1935, studying with Frederick Terman. After graduate work at the California Institute of Technology, he joined Bell Laboratories. In 1...

Fein, Louis

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Computer science professor. From the description of Oral history interview with Louis Fein, 1979 May 9. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63282972 ...

Golub, Gene H. (Gene Howard), 1932-2007

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Gene H. Golub, 1979 June 8. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63297228 Computer science professor. From the description of Oral history interview with Gene H. Golub, 1979 May 16. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63306916 ...

Traub, J. F. 1932-

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Forsythe, Alexandra I.

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Secondary education teacher and university instructor in mathematics and computer science and wife of computer scientist George E. Forsythe. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexandra I. Forsythe, 1979 May 16. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63288445 Biography Memorial Resolution: George Elmer Forsythe 1917-1972 George E. Forsythe, Professor and Chairman of the De...

Amarel, Saul

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Computer scientist and Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) director. From the description of Oral history interview with Saul Amarel, 1989 October 5. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283836 ...

Feigenbaum, Edward A.

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Computer scientist. Feigenbaum received his B.S., 1956, and his Ph.D., 1959, in electrical engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology. He completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the National Physics Laboratory and in 1960 went to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1965 in the Dept. of Computer Science; he served as Director of the Stanford Computation Center from 1965 to 1968 and as chairman of the Depar...

Buchanan, Bruce G.

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Computer scientist. From the description of Oral history interview with Bruce G. Buchanan, 1991 June 11. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283826 ...

Nilsson, Nils J., 1933-....

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Nils J. Nilsson, Kumagai Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1958. After twenty-three years at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International, he returned to Stanford in 1985 as the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, a position he held until August 1990. Besides teaching courses on artificial intelligence and on machine learning, he has conducted ...