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The computing technology changed dramatically in the past 50 years and in this podcast I talk to people who worked in the field during that time and experienced all these dramatic changes.
Unknown Host hosts "Computing.... There I was!", a history show with 11 episodes published.
Kevin started his career as a programmer at Rockefeller University, supporting medical research. He worked for the doctors that created the methadone treatment for heroine addicts. He then moved to Wall Street, working o
One story summarizes Adam's career - when he was asked in an intro to engineering class "Why do you want to be an electrical engineer?", he replied "Because it's fun!". While he started as an electrical engineer, he quic
One story summarizes Adam's career - when he was asked in an intro to engineering class "Why do you want to be an electrical engineer?", he replied "Because it's fun!". While he started as an electrical engineer, he quic
Steven Fortune began programming while still in High School - in FORTRAN on punch cards. One of his ambitious projects was a program to play chess (in batch mode!). After obtaining his Ph.D., he went to work at IBM Resea
David Windmueller had an unusually varied career. Although he started playing with computers in elementary school, he started his working life as operator of nuclear reactors in the US Navy. Once he became a software eng
John Cordell had an impressive career. As a teenager he worked along engineers who designed early micro processors at Datapoint. After a stint in NY finance sector, John landed at Microsoft where he was one of the initia
Barbara Gilman started her career as a Systems Engineer at IBM in 1962. She first wired control panels on IBM accounting machines, such as the 407, then moved on to programming 1401 computers. She first coded in machine
Kitty started her career as a system programmer at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), working on the MUMPS system, then worked at number of financial institutions and eventually ran her own web design business (see https://ww
Marc Cohen is a software engineer who worked for many years at Google, Bell Labs and Lucent. He left Google in 2024 and now is a part time teacher in London - teaching Python and AI. Marc writes a regular blog, which you
As mentioned in the episode, David learned to program as a teenager on a Olivetti programable calculator. Take a look at this page to see what it looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101 If you have any q
This is the first episode of "Computing... There I was". It's a conversation Eric Mintz, a software engineer recently retired from Google. Turns out Eric made a small mistake, the language he first programmed in was call
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"Computing.... There I was!" is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under History (technology) and has published 11 episodes.
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