Browsing by Subject "System Development Corporation"

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    Oral history interview with Jules I. Schwartz
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1989-04-07) Schwartz, Jules I.
    Schwartz worked for the Rand Corporation on various defense related projects: SAGE and JOHNNIAC in particular. When Rand organized the System Development Corporation, Schwartz went to the new company. For most of the interview, Schwartz describes his association with SAGE, his part in the computer laboratory work on timesharing for the AN/FSQ-32 computer, computer networks, control system projects (such as TDMS), and his interactions with ARPA personnel, including J. C. R. Licklider, Lawrence G. Roberts, and Robert S. Taylor. He discusses his later position at Computer Sciences Corporation. This interview was recorded as part of a research project on the influence of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the development of computer science in the United States.
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    Oral history interview with Robert M. Fano
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1989-04-20) Fano, Robert M.
    Fano discusses his move to computer science from information theory and his interaction with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Topics include: computing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); the work of J. C. R. Licklider at the Information Processing Techniques Office of ARPA; time-sharing and computer networking research; Project MAC; computer science education; CTSS development; System Development Corporation (SDC); the development of ARPANET; and a comparison of ARPA, National Science Foundation, and Office of Naval Research computer science funding.
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    Oral history interview with Simon E. Gluck, Hans B. Marx, Douglas C. Wendell, Lyle G. Thompson, and J. Jay Wolf
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 1986-07-25) Wolf, J. Jay; Wendell, Douglas C.; Thompson, Lyle G.; Marx, Hans B.; Gluck, Simon E.
    Gluck, Marx, Thompson, Wendell, and Wolf discuss the growth of research and development within the Burroughs Corporation. Subjects include: the establishment and growth of the Paoli research and development facility; research on electronic equipment for banks; research on general and special purpose computers; and the integration of Burroughs acquisitions--ElectroData Corporation and System Development Corporation--into Burroughs research and development.