Traub, J. F. (Joseph Frederick), 1932-2011-06-202011-06-201985-03-29Joseph 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/107684OH 94https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107684Transcript, 50 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95283The 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.en-USComputer historyWatson Scientific Computing LaboratoryUniversity of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesUnited States. -- Advanced Research Projects AgencyStanford University. -- Computer Science Dept.Moore School of Electrical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceFederal aid to higher education -- United StatesEducational fund raisingComputer science -- Study and teaching (Higher)Columbia University -- Dept. of Computer ScienceCarnegie Mellon University. -- Computer Science Dept.Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.Oral History