| Title: |
Joseph F. Traub
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| Local code: |
OH 94
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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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| Series: |
Item 1 of Series Joseph F. Traub
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| Description: |
The 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.
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| Extent: |
32 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=276
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1985 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Traub, Joseph Frederick
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker occupation: |
Electrical engineer; Writer
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| Document location: |
New York, NY
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| Document date: |
29-Mar-1985
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| Interviewer: |
Aspray, William
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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: |
OHI0024057-25604
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