Abstract :
This article contains excerpts from a career interview with Bernard A. Galler, founding editor in chief of the “IEEE Annals of the History of Computing”, taken on 8th August 1991 by Enid H. Galler of Voice Treasures. Bernie, as his friends know him, is Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, and founder and former president of the Software Patent Institute. He tells people that he wasn´t one of the “real pioneers” of computing; he came along just after them, in 1955
Keywords :
biographies; computer science; Bernard A. Galler; Bernie Galler; IEEE Annals of the History of Computing; Michigan University; Software Patent Institute; biography; career interview; computing pioneer; journal editor; Application software; Books; Computer science; Computer vision; Engineering profession; Interviews; Linear programming; Logic devices; Mathematics; Numerical analysis;