Result: Oral history interview with John Day
Title:
Oral history interview with John Day
Authors:
Publisher Information:
Charles Babbage Institute
Publication Year:
2010
Subject Terms:
Computer history, Illiac computer -- History, Illiac IV (Computer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Burroughs B5000 (Computer), Burroughs B6700 (Computer), Burroughs Corporation, Military research -- United States, Day, John, Bachman, Charles W, ARPANET (Computer network), Defense contracts -- United States, OSI (Computer network standard), Internet -- Computer programs, Cerf, Vinton G, 1943-, Von Foerster, Heinz, Grossman, Gary, Grothe, David M, Slotnick, Daniel, NASA Ames Research Center, cybernetics
Time:
1911-2002, 1903-1972, 1900-1984, 1918-2000
Document Type:
other/unknown material
Language:
English
Relation:
Availability:
Rights:
undefined
Accession Number:
edsbas.958AA04C
Database:
BASE
Further Information
Transcript, 93pp. ; John Day describes his computer science education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including vignettes of student life in the late 1960s and early 1970s and campus protests over work on the ILLIAC IV computer. A second portion of the interview gives highlights of his work on network standards-setting, including Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and American National Standards Institute (ANSI).