Title
Computer Development at Harvard by Richard Milton BlochCatalog Number
102695477Type
Moving imageDescription
The First International Research Conference on the History of Computing was a milestone in the history of computing, drawing a global elite of computer pioneers from the first generation of electronic digital computing. Most talks are approximately 45 minutes in duration and feature a lecture with a brief question and answer period afterwards.Richard Milton Bloch (1921 – 2000) was a pioneering American computer programmer. Along with Grace Hopper and Robert Campbell he was among the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I, a room-sized electromechanical computer which began operation in 1944. He describes in general terms the way the Mark I functioned internally and how it was programmed as well as the many interactions at the Harvard Computation Library he had with Hopper, Campbell and Harvard Mark I project leader professor Howard Aiken.
This lecture’s transcript was not included in the edited volume from the conference, viz. Metropolis, N., and Howlett, J., Rota, Gian-Carlo, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, New York: Academic Press, 1980.
Date
1976-06-14Credits
Block, Richard MiltonParticipants
| Bloch, Richard Milton, Speaker |
Place of Publication
Los Alamos, NM, USIdentifying Numbers
| Other number | Reel 33 | Original tape numbering |