DocumentCode
883274
Title
The National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC)
Author
Huskey, Harry D.
Volume
2
Issue
2
fYear
1980
Firstpage
111
Lastpage
121
Abstract
The involvement of the National Bureau of Standards in automatic computing prior to 1949 is explained in some detail in order to describe the initiation of the SWAC project at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at UCLA. The status of automatic computing in 1948 and 1949 is presented from contemporary documents. Finally, some details of the SWAC design and an extensive bibliography are given.
Keywords
Computers; History; Information processing; Laboratories; NIST; Numerical analysis; Standards;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0164-1239
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.1980.10022
Filename
4639132
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