Dear all, My name is Kevin Lambert, an historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physic-mathematics with an interest in the history of the computer and someone who very much appreciates your exchanges. I have recently had the following inquiry (see below) directed my way. Can anybody help? Prof. Lambert,
I am a contributing editor at Popular Science, and I am working on a feature for the magazine for which I'm trying to find the origin of the term "high throughput." Andy Jewett at Harvard (who was my advisor for my MA thesis at NYU a few years ago) suggested I contact you.
I have asked a few bioinformatics people where "high throughput" comes from, because the first time I learned about it was through genomics and drug discovery. They couldn't answer. I am now wondering if it is a computing term-- I know that "high throughput computing" exists-- that was adapted for biology. Andy suggested I check with you on the computing connection.
Any ideas on the origin of this term? If not, any suggestions on who might know? I've run multiple book/journal article searches and haven't come up with anything useful.
I realize this is very short notice right before the holidays, but if you have time to respond sometime tomorrow or by early next week, I'd be very grateful. If you'd like to learn more about my project, I'm happy to explain on the phone.
Thanks very much, Brooke
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