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An Interview With Stephen A. Cook, Philip L. Frana
An Interview With Stephen A. Cook, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Stephen A. Cook, winner of the 1982 AM Turing Award, reflects on his career. nature of nP-complete class of problems has been one of the most active and important research activities in computer science.” Cook further discusses the feasibility of solving the P versus nP problem, which has recently received renewed attention given increasingly powerful computational capabilities and the decreasing cost of computing. In a September 2009 Communications article, Lance Fortnow wrote that Cook's work on computational ...
An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra, Thomas J. Misa, Philip L. Frana
An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra, Thomas J. Misa, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
No abstract provided.
Honors 2025: The Future Of The Honors College, Richard Ira Scott, Philip Frana
Honors 2025: The Future Of The Honors College, Richard Ira Scott, Philip Frana
Philip L Frana
As we attempt to foresee the future, we recognize that the increase in the number of honors colleges over the past decade appears to be an accelerating trend. We base our predictions on the continuation of this trend and on our need as honors administrators to anticipate and welcome the multiple impacts it will have on current and future honors colleges. We have selected four connected areas as the focus of our consideration: mission; curriculum; assessment and accreditation; and recruiting.
Before The Web There Was Gopher, Philip L. Frana
Before The Web There Was Gopher, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
The World Wide Web, universally well known today, was preceded by an efficient software tool that was fondly named Gopher. The Internet Gopher, much like the Web, enabled users to obtain information quickly and easily. Why, then, did it disappear but the Web did not? Gopher faded into obscurity for two main reasons: hypertext and commerce.
Oral History Interview With Laszlo A. Belady, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Laszlo A. Belady, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Belady discusses his early life and education in Hungary, escape to West Germany during the 1956 revolution, and work as a draftsman at Ford Motor Company in Cologne and as an aerodynamics engineer at Dassault in Paris. Belady covers his 1961 immigration into the United States, where he joined International Business Machines and did early work in operating systems, virtual machine architectures, program behavior modeling, memory management, computer graphics, Asian character sets, and data security. He also ...
Oral History Interview With Stephen Cook, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Stephen Cook, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Cook recounts his early interest in electronics and association with electronic cardiac pacemaker inventor Wilson Greatbatch, and his education at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. He describes his first position as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and his growing interest in problems of computational complexity preceding an influential 1971 presentation on “The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures” at the ACM SIGACT Symposium on the Theory of ...
Researching The History Of Software: Mining Internet Resources In The “Old World,”“New World,” And The “Wild West”, Juliet Burba, Philip L. Frana
Researching The History Of Software: Mining Internet Resources In The “Old World,”“New World,” And The “Wild West”, Juliet Burba, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
So wrote the great philosopher and poet Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana in his essay" The Elements and Function of Poetry."[1] Without doubt, the advent of the early Web unleashed a mania, an unreasonable recklessness that to this day resists being swept back under the rug. How can we tease" sanity" out of the Web? Can the historian put this madness to good use?
Oral History Interview With Peter Watson, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Peter Watson, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Peter Watson is founder of Berkeley Computer Services Limited (BCS), one of the oldest continuously operating software houses in Scotland. The company was established in 1978, and is based in Glasgow. BCS's first customer was Kangolwear. The company moved into healthcare solutions in the 1980s. In 1991 the company launched the integrated software package Masterlab, first implemented at Neville Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, Wales. In 2002 BCS was one of the largest providers of laboratory information systems in the United ...
Oral History Interview With Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Sir Antony Hoare is Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, and Research/Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford. Hoare is the recipient of the AM Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages. He has also been awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for pioneering and fundamental contributions to software science. In this oral history Hoare recounts his personal involvement in the development of academic computing science ...
Oral History Interview With Carl Machover, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Carl Machover, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Carl Machover is computer graphics pioneer and president of Machover Associates Corporation (MAC), a computer graphics consultancy founded in 1976. MAC provides a broad range of management, engineering, marketing, and financial services to computer graphics users, suppliers, and investors worldwide. In this oral history Machover describes his upbringing in Iowa and training in the Eddy radar and radio program and other Navy service schools in Mississippi and Texas. He also provides details of his education under ...
Oral History Interview With Gary Durbin, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Gary Durbin, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Gary Durbin is a software pioneer and entrepreneur with over thirty-five years of experience. He began his career specializing in operating systems and database systems. His first company, started in 1970, developed operating system improvements for IBM machines. That company introduced Secure, an early software security product. Secure was sold to Boole & Babbage in 1978. Durbin then founded Tesseract Corporation, a human resources software company that introduced the Time Relational Database. Tesseract was sold to ...
Oral History Interview With Lee Keet, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Lee Keet, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
In this oral history software entrepreneur Ernest E.(Lee) Keet chronicles his education in programming and engineering at Cornell University, his early work as a salesperson and systems engineer for IBM in White Plains, NY, and his success as founder and CEO of Turnkey Systems, Inc.(TSI). Keet characterizes the heavy" craft" versus the" art" components of computer programming; he discusses the introduction of TSI's Task/Master, the first commercial telecommunications monitor; and his entrepreneurial efforts in Europe. Keet ...
Oral History Interview With Jim Gray, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Jim Gray, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Gray discusses his childhood in Rome and education at the University of California, Berkeley. He explains the influence of Sputnik, Norbert Wiener's view of cybernetics and society, the social impact of computing, and the artificial intelligence papers of Newell and Simon in the shaping of his career. Gray describes his co-op position at General Dynamics, as well as positions with Bell Labs (Murray Hill) and IBM Research in Yorktown Heights and San Jose. Gray also describes his evaluations of computer models stimulated by the ...
Oral History Interview With William Mcgee, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With William Mcgee, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
William McGee is a retired senior programmer at the IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory. McGee received the AB degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1949, and the MA degree in physics from Columbia University in 1951. From 1951 to 1959, McGee managed the numerical analysis unit at the General Electric Hanford Atomic Products Operation in Richland, Washington. Between 1959 and 1964 he led systems programming and research at Ramo Wooldridge Corporation in Canoga Park, California. McGee joined ...
Oral History Interview With Donald D. Chamberlin, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Donald D. Chamberlin, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Don Chamberlin is a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. In this oral history Chamberlin recounts his early life, his education at Harvey Mudd College and Stanford University, and his work on relational database technology. Chamberlin was a member of the System R research team and, with Ray Boyce, developed the SQL database language. Chamberlin also briefly discusses his more recent research on XML query languages.
Oral History Interview With Mark P. Mccahill, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Mark P. Mccahill, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
In this oral history Mark P. McCahill, Assistant Director of Academic and Distributed Computing Services at the University of Minnesota, recounts his role as leader of the team that created the popular client/server software for organizing and sharing information on the Internet. McCahill also describes his work in the development of Pop Mail, Gopher VR, Forms Nirvana, the Electronic Grants Management System, and the University of Minnesota Portal.
Oral History Interview With Glenn Henry, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Glenn Henry, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Glenn Henry begins by briefly outlining his education and early work career prior to joining IBM. The majority of the interview focuses on Henry's work as a software systems engineer and manager at IBM in the 1970s. Henry was centrally involved in the software development and hardware definitions for IBM's early Midrange Series computers. He had managerial roles at IBM San Jose and IBM Boca Raton before leading a large team at the home of IBM Midrange Series hardware and software development, IBM Rochester. He details the ...
Oral History Interview With Dick Hedger, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Dick Hedger, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
Richard Hedger begins the interview describing his education in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota. Following graduation he accepted a position at IBM Rochester in the optical character recognition group. He then discusses his shift to software development. Eventually he joined the Service and Support group developing application software supporting facilities infrastructures for the IBM System/3, and System/360. In various places in the interview, he describes some of the programming techniques in ...
Oral History Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
In this oral history Edsger Dijkstra recounts his early education and training as a theoretical physicist and as a'programmer'. Dijkstra describes his work developing software, and his activities at several early information processing conferences. Dijkstra also discourses on the development of ALGOL 60 and the origins of computing science in Europe and America.
Oral History Interview With Peter C. Patton, Philip L. Frana
Oral History Interview With Peter C. Patton, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
In this oral history Peter Patton, Chief Technology Officer at Lawson Software in St. Paul, MN, and former Director of Academic Computing at the University of Minnesota, talks about his education at Harvard, his involvement in the development of PLATO courses in the humanities, and his perspectives on the software industry and patenting. Patton also shares his experience with IBM 650, CDC 6600, and Cray installations on several university campuses, his role in Project Safeguard, and his design of the Hennepin Justice ...
Testing Physicians’ Limits: Medical Informatics And Diagnostic Decision-Making, Philip L. Frana
Testing Physicians’ Limits: Medical Informatics And Diagnostic Decision-Making, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
No abstract provided.
Smallpox: Local Boards And The Legitimacy Of The Iowa State Board Of Health, 1880-1900, Philip L. Frana
Smallpox: Local Boards And The Legitimacy Of The Iowa State Board Of Health, 1880-1900, Philip L. Frana
Philip L Frana
No abstract provided.