joseph weizenbaum, 1923 - 2008 last time i saw him was 2005 in vienna, after a conference of pure madness, somehow.

...nachdem sich niemand um ihn gekümmert hat, stand der mann auf der strasse. cafe? gerne! "was ich vor 10/30 jahren sagte, hat noch seine berechtigung." (bei amazon im doppelpack erhältlich.) er würde nur einen anderen titel wählen. anstatt: die auswirkung des computers auf die gesellschaft, die auswirkung der gesellschaft auf den computer und sprach vom militär.

terry winograd's laudatio, 1988

nachtrag: na endlich haben sie es auch in übersee vernommen. elektrosmog sei dank.

can someone open these goldstein boxes? or scan some of it?

something to dig and dig ...: lemelson center

... The project at the moment is concentrating very heavily on the work that was done at the Bell Laboratories in the late ‘30s, work that was done at Harvard in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s, and the work that was done at NASA, at Iowa State, and at other locations. | acm meeting '72 oral history

participants: Walter Carlson, Henry Tropp, Ed Berkeley, Harry Hazen, Dick Clippinger, Betty Holberton, John Mauchly, Ross ?, Chuan Chu, Bob Campbell, Franz Alt, Tom ?, and Grace Murray Hopper

of interest also the talks recorded at the 20th anniversary of acm 1967. videotaped, stenotaped and audiotaped; not to fiddle around.

AUERBACH: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to a most unique occasion to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery. This session, is entitled "In The Beginning, Reminiscences of the Creators." I'm Isaac Auerbach, the Chairman of this session and Moderator of the panel ...

Panel Discussion with Issac Auerbach, Bruce Gilchrist, Sam Alexander, Bruce Schoonover, George Stibitz, Richard Bloch, John Mauchly, Herman Goldstine, Edward Cannon, Maurice Wilkes, Grace Hopper, Jay Forrester, Arnold A. Cohen, E.G. Andrews, Ed Berkley, Leslie Simon, Donald Eckdhal, Herb Grosch, Henry Polachek, Richard Turner, Jan Rajchman, Jerry Haddard, Betty Holberton, and Arthur Burks. | Date: August 30, 1967

recommended: herman goldstine's anecdotes about "little johnny" von neuman.

charles herzfeld remembers what 150billion, in todays dollars, were good for ...

he gives credits to jack ruina and talks a little bit about "project agile", the arpa study on counter insurgency strategy, suggesting if you wanna know what they are doing now, look at northeast thailand in the 70s ... it's a general purpose overview, leaving a lot of questions open - if you are interested in policy and defence. hope he will write down the answers one day. well done if the purpose was to point future historians to another direction ...