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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.