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| Title: | Oral history interview with Alexandra Forsythe |
| Authors: | Forsythe, Alexandra I. |
| Keywords: | Computer history
Women computer scientists
University of Utah. -- Dept. of Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles
United States. -- National Bureau of Standards
Swac computer
Stanford University. -- Computer Science Dept.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Forsythe, George E. (George Elmer), 1917-
Computers -- History
Computer science -- Study and teaching |
| Issue Date: | 16-May-1976 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | Alexandra I. Forsythe, OH 17. Oral history interview by Pamela McCorduck, 16 May 1976, Stanford, California. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107291 |
| Abstract: | Forsythe discusses the career of her husband, George Forsythe, from the time of his Ph.D. in 1941. He studied meteorology at UCLA in preparation for a military commission. After the war he taught meteorology at UCLA, where he became involved with the National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). In 1957, when the National Bureau of Standards closed its operation at UCLA, George accepted a position at Stanford University to establish its program in computer science. Forsythe recalls some of her husband's difficulties in securing funding for computer projects, the resistance he encountered in his attempts to sell computer time to the private sector, and his eventual success in establishing a well-funded program in 1965. |
| Description: | Transcript, 20 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/94874 |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107291 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
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