Title
Lecture by Calving C. Gotlieb
Catalog Number
102639679
Type
Moving image
Description
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.
Arguably Canada’s first professional computer scientist, Calvin “Kelly” Gotlieb drove early efforts at the University of Toronto to adopt computing as an academic field of study. Most of his talk is about the first two computers at the University of Toronto, which were also the first two computers in Canada, concluding in about 1960. The story begins in 1947 with three Canadian professors visiting laboratories in the United States.
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
1976-06-12; 2002
Credits
Gotlieb
Place of Publication
Los Alamos, NM, US
Identifying Numbers
Other number |
Reel 26 |
Original tape numbering |
Duration
00:42:24
Dimensions
10 inches
Format
Betacam SP
Category
Lecture
Series Title
International Research Conference on the History of Computing