Computers -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Douglas T. Ross papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0414
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises material from both Douglas Ross and SofTech, and spans the period of approximately 1945 to 2007.
Materials include: correspondence, reports, documentation, and project files.
Dates:
approximately 1945 to 2007
Fernando J. Corbató papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0371
Scope and Contents
The Fernando J. Corbató papers date from approximately 1964 to 1997.
Materials include: notebooks, manuals, examinations, and meeting materials.
Topics include Graduate Record Exam (GRE) Education Testing Service, teaching assignments, and Multics.
Dates:
1964 - 1997
Harold L. Hazen papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0106
Abstract
Harold Locke Hazen, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a member of the MIT faculty from 1931 to 1972, serving as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1938-1951, and Dean of the Graduate School, 1952-1967. His work was in the field of machine computation, automatic control, and servomechanisms. During World War II he was head of Division 7, Fire Control, of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). The collection contains research notes and...
Dates:
1920 - 1980
Herbert R. Stewart papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0211
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Herbert Stewart's years as a student at the Massachusestts Institute of Technology (MIT) are recorded in student and course notes for classes in electrical engineering, 1923 1924. There is some correspondence with Vannevar Bush about the Product Integraph. His activities as a consulting engineer are documented in articles, reports, and correspondence on issues of energy and high voltage electric systems, including projects for the New England Electric Power Service and Westinghouse Electric...
Dates:
1920 - 1985
Jay Wright Forrester papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0439
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the professional activities of Jay Wright Forrester, director of the Digital Computer Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Materials in this collection span from approximately 1940 to 2000, and include Forresters research, writings, speeches, correspondence, corporate consulting materials, and course notes for classes he taught at MIT. Forrester's research is documented in records about his patents and computation notebooks. These materials...
Dates:
1940-circa 2000
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, 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
Project Whirlwind Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-0665
Abstract
The Whirlwind I computer was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1945 and 1952 in a project directed by Jay Forrester. The project was first carried out in the Servomechanisms Laboratory. Later it separated to become the Digital Computer Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory, Division 6, and testing continued through 1958. Jay Forrester served as director of both laboratories until 1956, and Robert Everett as associate director, then director. A key part of the...
Dates:
1944 - 1959
Vannevar Bush papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0078
Scope and Contents
The Vannevar Bush Papers consist of correspondence, reports, patent records, notes, memos, manuscript drafts and galley proofs of books and articles, appointment calendars, and reprints primarily from 1956 to 1974. There are three series: 1. Subject Files, 2. Writings, and 3. Appointment Calendars. The collection came in two accessions, and although the two were interfiled, whenever possible the papers were kept in their original order. As a result the subject files are in three sections...
Dates:
1921 - 1974
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