Oral history interview with Edward Feigenbaum
1979-06-12
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Oral history interview with Edward Feigenbaum
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1979-06-12
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Charles Babbage Institute
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Feigenbaum discusses the formation and growth of the Stanford University Computer Science Department and its acquisition of facilities. He recalls how IBM and Control Data Corporation replaced Burroughs as the university's computer vendor because of the need for large-scale computing. He explains his effort as head of the Computation Center to centralize all university computing activities, and the failure of that effort in the l970s with the introduction of minicomputers on campus. Feigenbaum also details the department's financing, including government support (ARPA, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research), equipment donations from industry (IBM especially), and faculty salaries. Feigenbaum credits George Forsythe for the department's initial success in key areas such as numerical analysis, systems, and artificial intelligence, and hiring talented faculty such as John McCarthy.
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Edward Feigenbaum, OH 14. Oral history interview by Pamela McCorduck, 12 June 1979, Stanford, California. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107283
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Feigenbaum, Edward A.. (1979). Oral history interview with Edward Feigenbaum. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107283.
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