CDC, Raytheon, and Harvard University: Three Early Data Management Systems
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By 1965, having successfully combined work--at EMCC, Burroughs, and Philco--with the task of raising a family when such a combination was still somewhat of a rarity, the author went on to become a consultant in the Boston area. In this last installment of her memoirs, she describes working with different data management systems, culminating with her employment at Harvard University for 27 years.
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Index Terms:
CAD/CAM, CDC, computer-assisted instruction, computer-aided planning system, data management systems, Digigraphics, early programmers, financial modeling, Harvard Library, Raytheon
Citation:
Adele Mildred Koss, "CDC, Raytheon, and Harvard University: Three Early Data Management Systems," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 55-65, Apr.-June 2007, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2007.19
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