Wheeler, David J., 1927-2011-06-202011-06-201987-05-14David J. Wheeler, OH 132. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 14 May 1987, Princeton, New Jersey. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107711OH 132https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107711Transcript, 27 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95492Wheeler, who was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge from 1948-51, begins with a discussion of the EDSAC project during his tenure. He compares the research orientation and the programming methods at Cambridge with those at the Institute for Advanced Study. He points out that, while the Cambridge group was motivated to process many smaller projects from the larger university community, the Institute was involved with a smaller number of larger projects. Wheeler mentions some of the projects that were run on the EDSAC, the user-oriented programming methods that developed at the laboratory, and the influence of the EDSAC model on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701. He also discusses the weekly meetings held in conjunction with the National Physical Laboratory, the University of Birmingham, and the Telecommunications Research Establishment. These were attended by visitors from other British institutions as well as from the continent and the United States. Wheeler notes visits by Douglas Hartree (of Cavendish Laboratory), Nelson Blackman (of ONR), Peter Naur, Aad van Wijngarden, Arthur van der Poel, Friedrich L. Bauer, and Louis Couffignal. In the final part of the interview Wheeler discusses his visit to Illinois where he worked on the ILLIAC and taught from September 1951 to September 1953.en-USComputer historyUnited States -- Data processingOrdvac computerInstitute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)Information storage and retrieval systemsIlliac computerIBM 701 (Computer)Great Britain -- Data processingEDSAC (Computer)Computers -- United States -- HistoryComputers -- Great Britain -- HistoryComputer science -- Study and teaching (Higher)Cambridge University. -- University Mathematical LaboratoryOral History