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SCALD (Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design) oral history series : interview 3 of 3 : Tom McWilliams

Contributor

McWilliams, Tom, Interviewee; Editor
Stump, Holly, Interviewer
Widdoes, Curt, Editor

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2008-02-12

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

9 p.

Description

In the last of three interviews focused on the history of the SCALD (Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design) System developed in the 1970s at Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Tom McWilliams discusses his early personal history, his experiences developing DEC's first logic simulator (Sage), the S-1 Project at LLNL, the development of SCALD, the founding of Valid Logic Systems, and the three computer technology companies that he established after Valid (Key Computer, PathScale and Schooner Information Technology).

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Subject

Valid Logic Systems; McWilliams, Tom; Widdoes, Curt; Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); Sage logic simulator; Bell, Gordon; Casasent, Dave; Hertz Foundation; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL, LLL); Wood, Lowell; Stanford Computer Science Department; Stanford AI Laboratory (SAIL); Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design (SCALD); S-1 Project; S-1 Mark I; S-1 Mark IIA; S-1 Mark IIA; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE); Electronic design automation (EDA); Daisy, Mentor, Valid (DMV); Key Computer; Rubin, Jeff; PathScale; Schooner Information Technology

Collection Title

Oral Histories Online

Accession Number

102658344