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| Title: | Oral history interview with Joseph F. Traub |
| Authors: | Traub, J. F. (Joseph Frederick), 1932- |
| Keywords: | Computer history
Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth.
Iterative methods (Mathematics)
IBM 650 (Computer)
Eckert, W. J. (Wallace John), 1902-1971
Computers -- United States -- History
Computer industry -- United States -- History
Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.
Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory |
| Issue Date: | 5-Apr-1984 |
| Publisher: | Charles Babbage Institute |
| Citation: | J. F. Traub, OH 70. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 5 April 1984, New York, New York. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107687 |
| Abstract: | The interview ranges from Traub's upbringing and early education to his first full-time job at Bell Laboratories, but the bulk of the interview concerns his graduate education at Columbia University and his work at the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory. Traub devotes the first part of the interview to his family's escape from Germany in 1938, his education in New York City Public Schools, and his college education at C.U.N.Y. He then turns to his graduate education at Columbia University. In 1955 he became involved with computing at the Watson Computing Laboratory. He discusses the work environment at the Watson Laboratory in the mid-1950s and his own research on an IBM 650 after he became a Watson Fellow in 1957. Some Columbia faculty and Watson Lab personnel are mentioned, in particular, Wallace Eckert and L.H. Thomas. In 1959 Traub was hired by Bell Laboratories. He concludes the interview discussing the environment there and his work on optimal iteration theory. |
| Description: | Transcript, 45 pp. |
| Permanent URL: | http://purl.umn.edu/107687 |
| Appears in Collections: | Oral history interviews
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