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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 ...