Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Oral History Program.
Computers at MIT oral history collection, 1976-1977.
The collection consists of supporting documents for and tapes of interviews which discuss Project Whirlwind, Project MAC, and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, all at MIT. There are transcripts only for the interviews with Hazen and Forrester. Also includes tapes of a seminar, "Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence," with Philip Morrison, Jerome Lettvin, and Joseph Weisenbaum, and a lecture by Philip Morse of personal reminiscences of computer development.
Marc Miller of the MIT Oral History Program interviewed five people in 1977 to document their participation in Project Whirlwind at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as their subsequent work on computers. Project Whirlwind, sponsored by the United States Office of Naval Research, produced the first high-speed electronic digital computer able to operate in real time and that could be used as a practical device for controlling manufacturing processes or directing airplane traffic. The five interviewees were John W. Carr, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania; Robert R. Everett, president of the Mitre Corporation; Jay W. Forrester, professor of management at MIT; Harold L. Hazen, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT; and Alan J. Perlis, chairman of the department of computer science at Yale University.
Carr, John W. -- Oral history.
Everett, Robert R. -- Oral history.
Forrester, Jay Wright -- Oral history.
Hazen, Harold L. (Harold Locke), 1901-1980 -- Oral history.
Lettvin, Jerome Ysrael.
Morrison, Philip
Perlis, Alan J. -- Oral history.
Weizenbaum, Joseph.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory -- History.
Project MAC (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -- History.
Project Whirlwind -- History.
Artificial intelligence -- History.
Computers -- History.
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