Title
Moore, J Strother oral history, part 1 of 2
Catalog Number
102740449
Type
Document
Description
In this audio-recorded oral history interview, J Strother Moore discusses his early career in computing, and in particular his development of the “piece table” data structure for editors and word processors, as well as the Boyer-Moore fast string searching algorithm. Moore recounts his youth and education in Texas, his undergraduate studies at MIT, his summer internship working on the Apollo Guidance Computer software, and his growing involvement with computing and artificial intelligence. He describes his experiences and dissertation work in artificial intelligence, particularly theory proving, at the University of Edinburgh, including his development of an editor based on the piece table data structure. Moore details his subsequent years at Xerox PARC, and his interactions with Butler Lampson and Charles Simonyi in the development of editors and word processors at PARC and Moore’s involvement in the work at PARC on Interlisp and his work with Robert Boyer of SRI on their fast search algorithm.
Date
2018-10-17
Contributor
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Brock, David C., Interviewer
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Moore, J Strother, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Georgetown, TX
Extent
48 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
MIT; University of Edinburgh; artificial intelligence; Word processing; Theorem Proving; Xerox PARC; Interlisp; Bravo text editor; 77-Editor; Boyer Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm; Lampson, Butler; Simonyi, Charles; SRI; Boyer, Robert
Collection Title
CHM Oral History Collection
Credit
Computer History Museum
