Title
MANIAC. Lecture by Nicholas MetropolisCatalog Number
102639638Type
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.Conference organizer and Manhattan project scientist Nicholas Metropolis discusses his work on the custom-built MANIAC computers built at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. The importance of the calculations performed on this electronic computing machine and others in the early years of the Cold War are discussed and placed in context of the overall atomic energy program.
This lecture’s transcript was included in the edited volume from the conference, viz. Metropolis, N., “The MANIAC,” in Metropolis, N., and Howlett, J., Rota, Gian-Carlo, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, pp. 457 – 464.
Date
1976-06-10Credits
Metropolis, NicholasParticipants
| Metropolis, Nicholas, Speaker |