Morse, Philip McCord, 1903-1985
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1903 - 1985
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computation Center records
Collection
Identifier: AC-0062
Abstract
This set of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computation Center records spans the years 1950-1962 and documents the genesis of the Computation Center and its eventual transformation into the Information Processing Center. The Computation Center housed one of the first high-speed digital computers built by IBM with technology developed at MIT in Project Whirlwind. The purpose of the Center was to provide a means to educate faculty and students in the use of high-speed digital...
Dates:
1950 - 1962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President, records of Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0004
Abstract
The collection consists of records created while Karl Taylor Compton (president 1930-1948) and James Rhyne Killian (president 1948-1959) served in the position of president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It contains correspondence, reports, memoranda, and committee materials about the activities of the presidents and their staff, the definition and evolution of policies, and the administration of the Institute. Records document Compton's early efforts to strengthen the...
Dates:
1930 - 1959
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oral History Program, oral history interviews on computers at MIT
Collection
Identifier: MC-0131
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of supporting documents for and tapes of interviews which discuss Project Whirlwind, Project MAC, and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, all at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There are transcripts only for the interviews with Hazen, Forrester, Perlis, and Carr (draft). Also includes transcripts and notes of a seminar, "Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence," with Philip Morrison, Jerome Lettvin, and Joseph Weisenbaum, and a...
Dates:
1976 - 1977
Philip McCord Morse papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0075
Abstract
This collection documents the career of Philip Morse. Morse served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1931 to 1969 and was a leader in the field of operations research. The papers consist of biographical information; correspondence; notes; committee minutes; course material; reports; trip diaries; manuscripts; research data and graphs; and reprints and other printed material. The collection also includes a series of administrative records of the Massachusetts...
Dates:
1927 - 1980
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Computers -- History 2
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- History 2
- Artificial intelligence -- History 1
- Disarmament -- History 1
- Education -- United States 1
- Electronic digital computers -- History 1
- Government consultants 1
- IBM 704 (Computer) 1
- Operations research. 1
- Physicists -- Archives. 1
- Science -- Technological innovations -- Research. 1
- Whirlwind computer. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- United States. 1
- academic affairs 1
- fund raising 1
- governance 1
- institutional relationships 1
- oral histories (literary works) 1
- presidents 1
- speeches (compositions) 1 + ∧ less
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