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| Title: | Oral history interview with Nicholas C. Metropolis |
| Authors: | Metropolis, N. (Nicholas), 1915- |
| Keywords: | Computer history
United States -- Data processing
Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
Teller, Edward, 1908-
Richtmyer, Robert D.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954
ENIAC (Computer)
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 |
| Issue Date: | 29-May-1987 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | Nicholas C. Metropolis, OH 135. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 29 May 1987, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107493 |
| Abstract: | Metropolis, the first director of computing services at Los Alamos National Laboratory, discusses John von Neumann's work in computing. Most of the interview concerns activity at Los Alamos: how von Neumann came to consult at the laboratory; his scientific contacts there, including Metropolis, Robert Richtmyer, and Edward Teller; von Neumann's first hands-on experience with punched card equipment; his contributions to shock-fitting and the implosion problem; interactions between, and comparisons of von Neumann and Enrico Fermi; and the development of Monte Carlo techniques. Other topics include: the relationship between Turing and von Neumann; work on numerical methods for non-linear problems; and the ENIAC calculations done for Los Alamos. |
| Description: | Transcript, 34 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95547 |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107493 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
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