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Computer History Museum
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- Bay Area Computer History Perspectives
present:
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- "The Johnniac"
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- For more Johnniac images, click here
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- 5:30 - 7:00 PM
- Tuesday, September 15, 1998
Computer History Museum
Building 126
Moffett Field
Mountain View, CA 94035
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- The Johnniac (1953):
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- The Johnniac computer, built by The Rand Corporation,
was one of seventeen custom-built machines inspired by the Institute of
Advanced Study (Princeton) architecture. This design specified a binary,
bit-parallel machine optimized for "number crunching" and introduced
the "stored program" concept--that is, the storing of both data
and instructions in memory. Using 2300 vacuum tubes, the IAS machine
was the result of work supervised by Dr. John von Neumann, to whom the
offspring-computer named "Johnniac" paid homage (though von Neumann
"disapproved"!) Other machines of the IAS-class besides the Johnniac
included: the MANIAC (Los Alamos), the ILLIAC (University of Illinois),
the SILIAC (Australia), and IBM's first electronic, general-purpose computer,
the Model 701.
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- The lecture takes place in front of The
Johnniac! This remarkable machine is part of Computer History Museum's permanent collection.
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- The Speakers:
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- This lecture's speakers worked on the hardware and software
systems design, maintenance, management, and programming of the Johnniac.
Advance comments from Johnniac pioneers available
here.
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- Mort Bernstein: Johnniac and IBM 701 Programmer, 1954-63; Senior Analyst, IBM,
1963-65; Programmer and Department Head, R&D Division, System Development
Corporation (SDC) 1965-84; government analyst and consultant, 1984-91;
currently writing Johnniac simulator.
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- Paul Armer: Programmer, later Head of Computer Science Department,
The RAND Corp., 1947-1970; Director, Computation Center, Stanford University,
1970-78; Various positions at Harvard University, The Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and On-Line Business Systems, 1978-81;
Executive Secretary, Charles Babbage Institute, 1981-86; Assistant to the
President, On-Line Business Systems.
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- Willis Ware:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 1951; Hazeltine
Electronics Corp., 1942-1946; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
N.J. Member of John von Neumann's group that designed and developed
the IAS machine 1946-1951; North American Aviation, 1951-1952; The RAND Corporation, The Johnniac project, resident consultant,
The RAND Corporation, 1992 - present.
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- Bill Gunning: Project RAND and JOHNNIAC design engineer,
1947-1954; International Telemeter, 1954-1956; Beckman Instruments, 1956-1958;
Xerox PARC, 1970-1988 (including Ethernet development team).
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These talks are sponsored by
Computer History Museum
and
Sun Microsystems
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- Directions:
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- From Highway 101 in Mountain View, take the Moffett
Field exit
(not Moffett Blvd. or Moffett Field South Gate). You will
arrive
- at the Moffett Field main gate. When stopped,
kindly inform the guard
- that you are attending the Computer history talk.
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- If requested, you may be required to
- park to the right side of the gate,
- in the visitor's parking area, and go
- into the Visitor Badging office
- to get your reserved badge
- and further directions.
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- Need a map of Moffett Field? Click
here.
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- ***NOTE***
ADVANCE CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED for entry to Moffett Field.
If you plan to attend, please respond via e-mail.
You may also
- RSVP by voice
- by calling Cynthia at 650.604.2579
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- Please indicate if you are a
- US citizen and bring a Driver's License for identification.
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- If not a US citizen, do you have a green card?
- If so, please indicate the country you are from
in your RSVP
- and please bring your green card with you to
Moffett Field.
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