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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63288445 Title: Oral history interview with Alexandra I. Forsythe, 1979 May 16. Author: Alexandra I Forsythe; Pamela McCorduck Publisher: OCLC:63288445

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Oral history interview with Alexandra I. Forsythe, 1979 May 16.

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Oral history interview with Alexandra I. Forsythe, 1979 May 16.

Author:	Alexandra I Forsythe; Pamela McCorduck
Edition/Format:	Archival material : English
Summary:	Forsythe discusses the career of her husband, George E. Forsythe, from the time of his Ph.D. in 1941. He studied meteorology at UCLA in preparation for a military commission. After the war he taught meteorology at UCLA, where he became involved with the National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). In 1957, when the National Bureau of Standards closed its operation at UCLA, George accepted a Read more...
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Genre/Form:	Oral histories
Named Person:	George E Forsythe
Document Type:	Archival Material
All Authors / Contributors:	Alexandra I Forsythe; Pamela McCorduck Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	63288445
Notes:	Recorded in Stanford, Calif.
Description:	Sound cassettes : 2 (90 min. each) : analog, mono. Transcript : 20 p. Computer data (1 file : 62K)

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Forsythe discusses the career of her husband, George E. Forsythe, from the time of his Ph.D. in 1941. He studied meteorology at UCLA in preparation for a military commission. After the war he taught meteorology at UCLA, where he became involved with the National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). In 1957, when the National Bureau of Standards closed its operation at UCLA, George accepted a position at Stanford University to establish its program in computer science.

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