Verzuh, Frank M.2011-06-222011-06-221984-02Frank M. Verzuh, OH 63. Oral history interview by William Aspray, February 20 and February 24, 1984, Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107835OH 63http://purl.umn.edu/107835Transcript not available electronically. Please contact CBI.This interview describes early computing at MIT. Verzuh reviews his early life, his work on cosmic ray counters at the University of Denver, and his graduate work in electrical engineering at MIT. He discusses his work on MIT's Rapid Arithmetic Machine, his master's thesis on thyratron tubes, and the effect of the second world war on electrical engineering and computing at MIT. He provides information about other computing equipment built at MIT: the Mechanical Differential Analyzer, Rockefeller Differential Analyzer, Rockefeller Electronic Calculator, and Whirlwind. Other topics discussed in detail are the MIT Center of Analysis and Digital Computing Laboratory, the formation of Lincoln Laboratory, and the first computer conference held at MIT in 1945. The last portion of the interview concerns computer education at MIT, including: the electrical engineering curriculum in the 1940s, the formation of the Computing Center (which he directed), the relationship between MIT and computer manufacturers, the New England Computer Consortium, and the relation between Harvard and MIT in computer science.en-USComputer historyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhirlwind computerMassachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Center of AnalysisMassachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Digital Computing LaboratoryLincoln LaboratoryOral History