Artifact Details

Title

Software development at IBM. Lecture by John Backus at the Los Alamos History of Computing Conference

Catalog Number

102639699

Type

Moving image

Description

Reel covers 5:10 to 5:40 PM.

Roughly correponds to "Programming in America in the 1950s -- Some Personal Impressions" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century_, ed. N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota.

Date

1976-06-11

Credits

Backus, John W.

Place of Publication

Los Alamos, NM, US

Identifying Numbers

Other number Reel 17 Original tape numbering

Duration

00:30:00

Format

VHS

Category

Lecture

Series Title

International Research Conference on the History of Computing

Lot Number

X5953.2011