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- Franz Alt interview: January 23 and February 2, 2006
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Franz Alt interview: March 13, 1969
Computer Oral History CollectionAlt found the theoretical mathematics he studied in Vienna particularly useful to his later work in computing. He also experienced organizing manual computing, but never took any special interest in mechanical objects. During his first years in the U.S. ...
Franz Alt interview: September 12, 1972
Computer Oral History CollectionEarly programs on the ENIAC included one for calculating firing tables, one for finding sines and cosines, and a third by Nicholas Metropolis that calculated the consequences of a fluid dynamic model of the atomic nucleus. A test program by Derrick H. ...
Franz Alt interview: February 24, 1969
Computer Oral History CollectionFranz Alt was born in Vienna in 1910, went to school there, and then came to the U.S. He was diverted from the study of statistical methods of business forecasting by World War II. Drafted into the U.S. Army, he was sent to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in ...
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