Berezin, Evelyn oral history : 2015 fellow
Evelyn Berezin was born in New York City in 1925. In 1951, she joined a start-up company, Elecom, based in Brooklyn, which had started to build digital computers. From 1951 to 1969, she worked at a number of companies designing a variety of special-purpose computer systems. While working for Teleregister in 1962, Berezin designed one of the largest systems built at that time: a passenger reservations system for United Airlines. The design of the central system (three independent, linked processors) served 60 cities throughout the United States with a one-second response time and with no central system failures in 11 years of operation. In 1969, Berezin founded her own company: Redactron, a new maker of word processors. Redactron moved into its first building in December 1969. Redactron's first word processors were delivered in September 1971-one and a half years after the company was started with only nine people. A worldwide marketing organization was set up as well as a service organization, and Redactron grew. In 1975, it employed just under 500 people. Redactron was sold in 1976 to the Burroughs Corporation. Berezin has served on Boards of a number of public companies, including CIGNA, Koppers Co., Datapoint, and Standard Microsystems. Additionally, she has worked as Advisor or Board member with about 20 start-up technology companies. Berezin is currently on the Board of Directors of the Stony Brook (University) Foundation and is a member of the Oversight Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU.
Item Details
- Date
- 2014-03-10 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102746876
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Berezin, Evelyn (Interviewee)
Gardner Hendrie (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 77 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/NY/New York
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X7126.2014
- Subject
- General Electric, United Airlines, ENIAC, Burroughs, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Hunter College, SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer), Brooklyn Polytechnic, AT&T, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection