Metropolis, N. (Nicholas), 1915-2011-06-152011-06-151987-05-29Nicholas C. Metropolis, OH 135. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 29 May 1987, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107493OH 135https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107493Transcript, 34 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95547Metropolis, the first director of computing services at Los Alamos National Laboratory, discusses John von Neumann's work in computing. Most of the interview concerns activity at Los Alamos: how von Neumann came to consult at the laboratory; his scientific contacts there, including Metropolis, Robert Richtmyer, and Edward Teller; von Neumann's first hands-on experience with punched card equipment; his contributions to shock-fitting and the implosion problem; interactions between, and comparisons of von Neumann and Enrico Fermi; and the development of Monte Carlo techniques. Other topics include: the relationship between Turing and von Neumann; work on numerical methods for non-linear problems; and the ENIAC calculations done for Los Alamos.en-USComputer historyUnited States -- Data processingTuring, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954Teller, Edward, 1908-Richtmyer, Robert D.Los Alamos Scientific LaboratoryFermi, Enrico, 1901-1954ENIAC (Computer)Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957Oral History