Was Early Entry a Competitive Advantage? US Universities That Entered Computing in the 1940s

Authors:
William Aspray
Affiliations:
Computing Research Association, Washington, DC
Venue:
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Year:
2000

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Abstract

The author discusses whether early entry was a competitive advantage in academic computing. This is accomplished by examining the first three decades of computing at five universities - MIT, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton - that initiated computing programs in the 1940s.