San Francisco / Traverse City / Washington / Rochester / Bedford / Boston / West Concord / San Diego / /
Company
Institute’s Digital Computer Laboratory / Electronic Systems Laboratory / General Electric / Control Data Corporation / David E. Weisberg Computer Applications Group / Adams Associates / Sylvania Electric Products Company / Digital Equipment Corporation / Itek Corporation / Oxford University Press / Parsons Corporation / Princeton University Press / David E. Weisberg Laboratory / Control Laboratory / Servomechanism Laboratory / Bendix / Bell Telephone Laboratories / MITRE Corporation / Servomechanisms Laboratory / IBM / MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory / University Computing Corporation / In 1947 / MIT Digital Computer Laboratory / The Air Force / Computervision / Segal / Austin NC Corporation / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Company Expansion / Business Partnership / Name Change / /
Facility
Servomechanism Laboratory / Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute / North Dakota State University / Servomechanisms Laboratory / Institute’s Cambridge campus / Electronic Systems Laboratory / Institute’s Digital Computer Laboratory / MIT campus / MIT Digital Computer Laboratory / Barta Building / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / University of Pennsylvania / /
IndustryTerm
physical equipment / prototype radar systems / computer technology / earliest device / part programming solution / machine tool / aerospace industry / contemporary graphics systems / computer software / large mainframe computer systems / aerospace / experimental machine tool / then post-processing / aircraft carrier / appropriate control devices / machine tools / display technology / sheet metal parts / electricity / computational services / electronics / manufacturing organizations / /
OperatingSystem
UNIX / Microsoft Windows / /
Organization
Association of Computing Machinery / Princeton University / Force for the Servo Lab / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Computer Science and Telecommunications Board / Servo Lab / Navy / Mechanical Engineering Department’s Design Division / MIT’s Mechanical Engineering Department / Air Force / Oxford University / Lincoln Lab / Army Signal Corps / School of Management / MIT / X3.4.7 Subcommittee / Computer Lab / Electronic Computer Division / the University of Pennsylvania / Aerospace Industries Association / Aircraft Industries Association / Whirlwind Arithmetic Unit / Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute / USASI X3.4.7 Subcommittee / Lab’s Electronic Computer Division / /
Person
John Carr / John T. Parsons / Jr. / Jay Forrester / Arnold Siegel / Norm Taylor / Jack Gilmore / Kenneth Olsen / James McDonough / Gordon Brown / Robert Everett / Doug Ross / Robert W. Mann / Dom Combelec / John H. Runyon / Ray Tube / S. Hori / J. Francis Reintjes / Steven Anson Coons / Philippe Villers / Herbert Grossimon / David E. Weisberg / Donald Clements / Charles Adams / Ken Olsen / William Pease / Margaret Florencourt / Dwight Baumann / John Ward / /
Position
project leader / president / vice president / mathematician and designer / founder / engineer / Professor / NC controller / designer / draftsman / assistant / senior manager / programmer / computer programmer / instructor in the Design Division / dean / head of the Design Division / leader / designer for Chance-Vought Aircraft / director / associate director / acting project engineer for the development / permanent APT project administrator / Concord Control project manager / design engineer / Whirlwind project director and director of the Computer / controller / /
Product
Skullcandy G.I. Headphone/Headset / Cambridge / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Pascal / /
ProvinceOrState
Michigan / California / Pennsylvania / North Carolina / Massachusetts / /
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