Category Archives: Oral history

Robert L. Patrick on eMuseums

Posted on 9/9/2010 by Paul McJones

Bob Patrick is a friend of mine who entered the computer field in 1951, and whose hands-on experience running programs on an IBM 701 led him to conceive of the architecture for the General Motors/North American Monitor for the IBM … Continue reading →

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Don Chamberlin and the origin of SQL

Posted on 10/20/2009 by Paul McJones

Tonight Don Chamberlin will receive a 2009 Fellow Award of the Computer History Museum “for his fundamental work on structured query language (SQL) and database architectures”. The other awardees for 2009 are Robert R. Everett (M.I.T. Whirlwind and SAGE) and … Continue reading →

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Bob Taylor recognized by The University of Texas

Posted on 10/18/2009 by Paul McJones

Last month, Bob Taylor (the subject of a recent oral history) was recognized by The University of Texas. Bob received the Graduate School Outstanding Alumnus Award, a $100,000 Presidential Endowed Fellowship was established in his name, and he gave the … Continue reading →

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Oral history of Robert W. Taylor

Posted on 5/5/2009 by Paul McJones

Robert W. Taylor directed external research at NASA, where he funded early work by Douglas Engelbart, and at the ARPA IPTO, where he initiated the ARPANET project. He also founded the Xerox PARC Computer Science Laboratory and later the DEC … Continue reading →

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