Oral history interview with Joseph F. Traub

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Oral history interview with Joseph F. Traub

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1985-03-29

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Charles Babbage Institute

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The main topic is institutions in computing. Traub begins by discussing why computer science has developed as a discipline at some institutions but not others. Institutions that are highlighted include Stanford, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Carnegie-Mellon. Traub discusses his experiences as chairman of the computer science departments at Carnegie-Mellon and later Columbia. Other topics include: industrial and government funding of computer science departments (in particular the role of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Defense Department); the relationships between academic centers, such as MIT, Stanford, Columbia, and Carnegie-Mellon; and the importance of educational institutions to regional centers of industrial computing. At the end of the interview Traub returns to a topic of his earlier interviews, his experiences at Bell and Watson Laboratories.

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Transcript, 50 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95283

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Joseph F. Traub, OH 94. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 29 March 1985, New York, New York. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107684

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Traub, J. F. (Joseph Frederick), 1932-. (1985). Oral history interview with Joseph F. Traub. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107684.

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