Computers That I Have Known - Cleve Moler on Mathematics and Computing

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Nick Higham's Numerical Linear Algebra group at the University of Manchester is hosting a conference celebrating Jack Dongarra's 70th birthday July 7 and 8. I am giving a talk, virtually, on July 7. I plan to reminisce about how I did computing in the days before everybody had their own computer in their lap. Here are the slides for the talk, some notes, and some links to this blog for more details.

These computers that have been a vital part of my professional life.



ContentsCaltech and University of Utah, 1959 and 1960Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1960 - 1961Used punched cards.Stanford, 1961 - 1965ETH

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