Computer History Museum

Electronics and the future

Rare sound recording of Wiener's March 24, 1948 interview on the U. S. government-sponsored program "Radio Forum," hosted by Ben Wilbur—most likely the earliest recorded interview with Wiener extant. Wiener was interviewed jointly with Dr. B. E. Shackelford, president of the IRE. The interview was held in New York City at the time of the IRE's 36th annual meeting. In the interview Wiener discusses communications engineering and its applications in a wide variety of fields—a topic of great interest in the postwar years, when electronic computing, communications technologies and information theory were beginning to attract a great deal of attention.

Item Details

Date
1948-03-24 (Made)
Type
Audio
Catalogue number
102706617
Organization
U.S. Dept. of State International Broadcasting Division (Publisher)
U.S. Department of State International Broadcasting Division (Publisher)
People
Ben Wilbur (Author)
B. E. Shackelford (Author)
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Weiner (Author)
Category
Broadcast
Format
Phonograph Record
Credit line
Gift of Jeremy Norman
Extent
00:13:16
Language
English
Acquisition number
X7695.2016