Computer History Museum

Hendrix, Gary oral history

Gary Hendrix discusses in some detail his interest in natural language analysis and machine translations. He covers a number of his Artificial Intelligence related projects at SRI International. He describes how he and 15 other SRI employees formed the Machine Intelligence Corporation and the reasons why it didn't succeed. He then goes into starting Symantec, how it was financed and the problems of having too many Ph.D.'s and the difficulties of trying to bring a more production-oriented approach to its offerings. He discusses Symantec's initial products, its organization and its transformation into a publicly-held systems utilities company. This oral history ends with Gary Hendrix leaving Symantec in 1991.

Item Details

Date
2004-11-19 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102657945
Other identifying number
OHP 107 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Dag Spicer (Interviewer)
James McClure (Videographer)
Gary G. Hendrix (Interviewee)
Burt Grad (Editor)
Category
Transcript
Extent
37 p.
Place of publication
North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X3008.2005
Subject
Software Business History, Kleiner Perkins, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Expert Systems
Archive collection
CHM Oral History Collection
Archive hierarchy
Oral History collection