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Buchholz, Werner Buchholz, Werner
Greenwald, Sidney; R. C. Haueter and
Samuel Nathan Alexander (1910–1967)
SEAC, pp. 1300–1313
The authors were with the National Bureau of
Standards, where they were instrumental in the
design and construction of SEAC.
Hopper, Grace Brewster Murray (1906–1992)
and John William Mauchly (1907–1980)
Influence of programming techniques on the
design of computers, pp. 1250–1254
Grace Hopper began her computer career with
Howard Aiken at Harvard, but by this time
she was a member of the staff of the UNIVAC
Division of Remington Rand. Mauchly was
one of the principle designers of ENIAC and
UNIVAC I.
Huskey, Harry Douglas (1916–); R.
Thorenson; B. F. Ambrosio; and E. C. Yowell
The SWAC - Design features and operating
experience, pp. 1294–1299
The authors were the principal figures in
the creation of SWAC, the National Bureau
of Standards computer at UCLA, their Los
Angeles site. By this time, Huskey, who had
started his career as a member of the ENIAC
team and had worked at the National Physical
Laboratory with Alan Turing for a year, was on
the staff of Wayne University, Detroit.
King, Gilbert W.; George W. Brown and
Louis Nicot Ridenour, Jr. (1911–1959)
Photographic techniques for information
storage, pp. 1421–1428
The authors were on staff of the International
Telemeter Corporation in Los Angeles, the
parent firm of Telemeter Magnetics, an early
supplier of magnetic core memories. All the
authors had distinguished careers: King became
Director of Research at IBM, Brown was a
professor at UCLA and UC Irvine, and Ridenour,
who had edited the MIT Radiation Laboratory
series of books after the war, became the chief
scientist for the Air Force.
Lewis, W. D.
Electronic computers and telephone switching,
pp. 1242–1244
Lewis was an engineer with Bell Telephone
Laboratories.
Palevsky, Max
The design of the Bendix Digital Differential
Analyzer, pp. 1352–1356
Palevsky joined Bendix Aviation’s Computer
Division in 1952. He later founded Scientific
Data Systems (SDS), which produced the Sigma
line of computers (later purchased by Xerox to
form XDS).
Rajchman, Jan A. (1911–1989)
A myriabit magnetic-core matrix memory, pp.
1407–1421
Rajchman was a pioneer research engineer with
RCA Laboratories. He was very interested in
memory systems and designed the Selectron
memory tubes used on the Johnniac computer.
Ross, Harold D., Jr.
The arithmetic element of the IBM Type 701
computer, pp. 1287–1294
Ross was a member of the staff at the IBM
Engineering Laboratory in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Rubinoff, Morris
Analogue vs. digital computers - A
comparison, pp. 1254–1262
Rubinoff was an engineer with the Moore School
of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania and later a faculty member.
Samuel, Arthur Lee (1901–1990)
Computing bit by bit or digital computers
made easy, pp. 1223–1230
After an early career at MIT and the University
of Illinois, Samuel moved to IBM in 1949,
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