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Samuel D. Conte
Professor emeritus of computer science and mathematics was the founding department head of the nation's first computer science program.
October 1962. |
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Conte's First
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Morris
Bennett
Joe Blum
Bernard Evans |
Roger
Feulner
John Glenn
Cecil Lobo |
Larry Segerlind
Lawrence Shulman
Paul R. Smith |
Bob
Spurgeon
Charles Rose
Vance
Vanderburg |
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New Faculty |
Samuel D. Conte
Sandy Kenyon
Robert
R. Korfhage
Duane L. Pyle
Saul
Rosen |
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Samuel D. Conte
('66 photo) |
Robert
R. Korfhage
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Duane L. Pyle
('64 photo) |
Saul
Rosen
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Computer Science's First Computers |
> The Univac 80 would not provide enough future growth
for Computer Science, so the IBM 1401 and 7090 were installed in
April 1962. The IBM 1401 and 7090 were operated for two shifts a
day during the work week.
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Science Headlines |
> Unimation introduces
the first industrial robot.
> The commercially sponsored Telstar
communications satellite is launched.
> Lt. Col John H. Glenn Jr. is the first
American to orbit the Earth - three times in 4 hours 55 minutes. |
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Science Headlines |
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> The first liver
transplant is performed by F. D. Moore and T. E. Starzl. |
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New Faculty |
J. Richard Buchi
Walter Gautschi
John M. Steele
John R. Rice |
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Science Headlines |
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> Ranger VII takes 4,316 high resolution
pictures of the moon. |
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Univac Solid State 80
(Duane Pyle; woman unknown) |
IBM
7090 at Allison Division of GM (used by Purdue) |
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Science Headlines |
> Edward White II becomes the first American
to walk in space (June 3).
> Early Bird, the first commercial
communications satellite, is launched. |
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New Faculty |
Carl W. R. de Boor
Paul Young |
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Ph.D. Recipients
/more info/ |
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Kenneth M. Brown
(Advisor: S. D. Conte) |
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Karl H. Usow
(Advisor: J. R. Ric ) |
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Science Headlines |
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> Insulin is first
synthesized in China. |
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Photo Collection
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Saul
Rosen |
Saul
Rosen |
John Steele with IBM 7094
in ENAD |
Keypunch Room in ENAD |
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New Faculty |
Robert E. Lynch
Maurice Halstead
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Ph.D. Recipients
/more info/ |
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Walter Scott Brainerd
(Advisor: J. R. Buchi)
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Bernard B. Evans
(Advisor: S. D. Conte
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William H. Hosken
(Advisor: J. R. Buchi)
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James E. Kalan (Advisor: J. S.
Maybee) |
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Douglas S. Kerr
(Advisor: S. D. Conte)
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Lawrence H. Landweber (Advisor: J. R. Buchi)
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Roland A. Sweet (Advisor: J. S. Maybee)
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Ramsay V. M. Zahar (Advisor: W. Gautschi) |
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Science Headlines |
> Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall,
Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller
particles called quarks.
> Dr. Christian N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's
first successful human heart transplant (Dec.3). The patient dies 18 days later.
> Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Honor
Society of the Computing Science, was established at Texas A&M University. |
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Plotter in ENAD |
IBM
System 360/50 in ENAD |
Math Science Bldg before First Machine |
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New Faculty |
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Jay F. Nunamaker |
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Jay F. Nunamaker
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Ph.D. Recipients
/more info/ |
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> Hermann G. Burchard
(Advisor: J. R. Rice) |
> John C. Hoff
(Advisor: J. R. Rice) |
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Science Headlines |
> Prototype of world's first supersonic airliner. The Soviet-designed Tupolev Tu144 made its first flight, Dec.31.
It first achieved supersonic
speed on June 5, 1969. |
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Ph.D. Recipients
/more info/ |
> Larry E. Axsom
(Advisor: S. Rosen)
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Herbert L. Dershem
(Advisor: R. E. Lynch)
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Edouard J. Desautels
(Advisor: S. Rosen)
> Norman E. Gibbs
(Advisor: R. E. Korfhage)
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James L. Phillips
(Advisor: W. Gautschi)
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Douglas K. Smith (Advisor: L. D. Pyle)
> Lawrence R. Symes
(Advisor: J. R. Rice) |
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Science Headlines |
> ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December,
connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research,
education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network
linking the country in the event that military attack destroys conventional
communications systems.
> Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the
moon. |
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