Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató
1990-11-14
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Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató
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1990-11-14
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Charles Babbage Institute
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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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Transcript, 97 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95580
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Fernando J. Corbató, OH 162. Oral history interview by Arthur L. Norberg, 14 November 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107230
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Corbató, F. J.. (1990). Oral history interview with Fernando J. Corbató. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107230.
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