Rubens, Sidney Michel,
Oral history interview with Sidney Michel Rubens, 1986 January 6 and 15.
Rubens discusses his career through his employment with Engineering Research Associates (ERA). He reviews his education in physics at the University of Washington, graduate study at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his teaching position at the University of Southern California beginning in 1937. In 1940, he joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. There he met Howard Engstrom, Robert Gutterman, Howard Daniels, and William Norris. In 1945, under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research, this group formed ERA to continue their war-time work, and Rubens joined them in 1946.
Rubens first worked on magnetic techniques for computer storage as part of the Goldberg project, under the direction of John Coombs and C. B. Tompkins. Rubens discusses the magnetic tape equipment he used and also discusses his contacts with the University of Minnesota Computer Center.
Physics professor and computer engineer.
Coombs, John Matthews.
Daniels, Howard L.
Engstrom, Howard T.
Gutterman, Robert P.
Norris, William C., 1911-
Tompkins, Charles Brown, 1912-
Engineering Research Associates.
Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak, Md.) -- Data processing.
University of Minnesota. Computer Center.
University of Southern California
Computer industry -- United States -- History.
Computer storage devices -- Research.
Magnetic recorders and recording.
Magnetic tapes.
Physics -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Norberg, Arthur L. (Arthur Lawrence), 1938- interviewer.
University of Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute. Center for the History of Computing. University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA