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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.
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S1E9 Steven Fortune - researcher at IBM and Bell Labs. and then software engineer at Google.
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…
S1E8 David Windmueller - from peek and poke, to operating nuclear reactors, to NASA and Google
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…
S1E7 John Cordell - from writing low level code for microprocessor designers to patenting the IFRAME tag.
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…
S1E6 Barbara Gilman - from early system engineer at IBM to a career as independent consultant.
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…
S1E5 Kitty Munson-Cooper - system programmer at DEC. programmer at many financial institutions and world champion Contract Bridge player
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…
S1E4 Marc Cohen - from Bell Labs and Lucent to Google, to becoming an educator.
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…
S1E3 David Lampell - from Olivetti calculators, to medical devices to Google.
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:…
S1E2 Eric Mintz - from teenage programmer at Cornell, to software engineer at Google.
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…
S1E1 Richie Bielak - Introduction to the podcast
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