Browsing by Subject "Computer industry"

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    Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1990-11-14) Corbató, F. J.
    Corbató discusses computer science research, especially time-sharing, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Topics in the first session include: Phil Morse and the establishment of the Computation Center, Corbató's management of the Computation Center, the development of the WHIRLWIND computer, John McCarthy and research on time-sharing, cooperation between International Business Machines (IBM) and MIT, and J. C. R. Licklider and the development of Project MAC. Topics in the second session include: time-sharing, the development of MULTICS by the General Electric (GE) Computer Division, IBM's reaction to MIT working with GE, the development of CTSS, the development of UNIX in cooperation with Bell Labs, interaction with the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, interaction with Honeywell after they purchased GE's Computer Division, and the transformation of Project MAC into the Laboratory for Computer Science.
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    Oral history interview with Gideon I. Gartner
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2005-08-12) Gartner, Gideon I.
    This interview is with entrepreneur and corporate leader Gideon Gartner, the founder of Gartner Group, Inc.—a pioneering firm in information technology assessment and advisory services. The interview briefly discusses his early life and education (which included a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and a Master’s from MIT’s Sloan School of Management), before focusing on his founding and leadership of Gartner Group (later renamed Gartner, Inc.). After MIT, Gartner began a successful career at IBM, focused on research and market management, before shifting to Wall Street and joining and becoming a Partner at Oppenheimer & Company. Leaving Oppenheimer, he launched Gartner Group in 1979 (where he was President, CEO, and Chairman until the early 1990s)—a company that revolutionized IT advisory and investment services with deeply-researched, concise (one-sheet) reports (among other innovations). He also discusses his teaching at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In the mid-1990s Gartner launched another fast-growing, important company, GiGa Information Group. This, too, focused on IT assessment and advisory services.
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    Oral history interview with Jack Bonnell Dennis
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1989-10-31) Dennis, Jack B. (Jack Bonnell); O'Neill, Judy E.
    Dennis describes his educational background and work in time-sharing computer systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The interview focuses on time-sharing. Dennis discusses the TX0 computer at MIT, the work of John McCarthy on time-sharing, and the influence of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (later the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) on the development of time-sharing. Dennis also recalls the competition between various firms, including Digital Equipment Corporation, General Electric, Burroughs, and International Business Machines, to manufacture time-sharing systems. He describes the development of MULTICS at General Electric.
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    Oral history interview with John Cullinane
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2003-07-29) Cullinane, John J.
    Software products industry pioneer John Cullinane begins by discussing his education and his first jobs in computer operations and programming at Arthur D. Little, C-E-I-R, and Philip Hankins & Company. He relates how these experiences led him to form a software products firm, Cullinane Corporation, and raise venture capital. He discusses the firm's development and marketing of a number of new software products, including Culprit, Library Update System, EDP Auditor, and IDMS, and IDMSDC, and relates how the Cullinane Corporation transitioned from selling individual report generator programs to suites of data processing systems that included database software and other applications. Much of the interview focuses on the firm's evolving management strategy that led to its long-term financial success. Cullinane also discusses some problems occurred after he left the active management of the company, the sale of Cullinet (the firm's new name) to Computer Associates, and his subsequent business and philanthropic activities.