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 -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of David Alan Grier (gwu) Sent: 16. maj 2009 22:42 To: James Cortada Cc: members@sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Help Please 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. Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2009, at 3:14 PM, James Cortada <jwcorta@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 jwcorta@us.ibm.com 608-270-4462
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