Artifact Details

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

Participants

Gotlieb, Calvin, Speaker

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

Lot Number

X5953.2011