| Title: |
Laszlo A. Belady
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| Local code: |
OH 352
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Charles Babbage Institute
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| Collection: |
Charles Babbage Institute Oral History Program
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| Description: |
Belady discusses his early life and education in Hungary, escape to West Germany during the 1956 revolution, and work as a draftsman at Ford Motor Company in Cologne and as an aerodynamics engineer at Dassault in Paris. Belady covers his 1961 immigration into the United States, where he joined International Business Machines and did early work in operating systems, virtual machine architectures, program behavior modeling, memory management, computer graphics, Asian character sets, and data security. He also discusses his tenure as Vice President and Program Director of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC); as Chairman, CTO, and CEO of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (MERL); and as Executive Director of the Austin Software Council.
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| Extent: |
38 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=320
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2002 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Belady, Laszlo A., 1928-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1928
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Budapest, Pest, Hungary; Pest, Hungary; Hungary; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Mechanical engineer
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| Age at speaking: |
74
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| Document location: |
Austin, TX
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| Document date: |
21-Nov-2002
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| Interviewer: |
Frana, Philip L.
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Computer software; Electric engineering; Engineering; Information technology; North America; Oral history; Software engineering; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0023909-25441
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