Browsing by Subject "Honeywell – Systems and Research Center"

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    Oral history interview with Jane Hauser Pejsa
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2016-01-28) Pejsa, Jane Hauser
    Jane Hauser Pejsa grew up in Minneapolis and graduated from Carleton College in 1951 with a degree in mathematics, then took an engineering position with Northwestern Bell Telephone in downtown Minneapolis. Her supportive math professor, Kenneth O. May, helped her land a position with Remington Rand Univac at the original Engineering Research Associates factory in St. Paul. At Univac she worked with Earl Joseph, then later worked in General Mills’ government computing division with Francis Alterman, founder of the short-lived Advanced Scientific Instruments. After briefly working for a book publisher, she took a position as a FORTRAN specialist with Honeywell Systems and Research developing computing and guidance systems for the Space Shuttle. She offers numerous character sketches and anecdotes, which she has written down in an essay entitled Memoir of a Fortran Queen (2016). This material is based on work funded by the
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    Oral history interview with Richard Y. Kain
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2015-05-27) Kain, Richard Y.
    Richard Y. Kain discusses his graduate education in computing and his work as a professor at MIT, including consulting with Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). The interview focuses on his consulting work with Earl Boebert at Honeywell on several iterations of the Provably Secure Operating System including the spin-off Secure Computing Corporation. It also describes his career as an electrical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota and interactions with the local computer industry. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1116862, “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.”