[SIGCIS-Members] Help Please

[Lars Heide]

Jim,

My observations from the Eckert-Mauchly and ERA files at Hagley supports David's observations. However, I was only able finding useful numbers here and there. 

Lars Heide
Copenhagen Business School

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Jim
     In UPenn, these figures are in the Associate Dean's files. I  
would guess that they are in the same place at Harvard and MIT as the  
associate dean controls manpower and budget reporting.  I'vemlookes at  
the Philly record and was surprised at how small the number seemed to  
be.

    A useful benchmark is the number of attendees at the November 1945  
Harvard/MIT computing conference. The list of attendees is in MTAC.  I  
recall it to be 83.

David Grier
Current associate dean for international affairs
Former associate dean for engineering
George Washington university.

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On May 16, 2009, at 3:14 PM, James Cortada <jwcorta at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I am running into difficulty getting my hands on numbers that tell  
> us how many people were working on, inventing, using computers in  
> the USA in the 1940s. Does anybody have any data on this matter that  
> I can use? Or point me specifically to where it is at? I will settle  
> even for data on specific places, like Philadelphia, Boston, New York.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada
> IBM Institute for Business Value
> 2917 Irvington Way
> Madison, WI 53713 USA
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