Anecdotes

  • Authors:

  • James Tomayko

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The paper relates a 1940 incident involving a security risk to the Watson Scientific Laboratory at Columbia University. The danger of compromise at this lab was very real with potentially far-reaching serious consequences; ironically, the danger perceived by officials was based on entirely erroneous conclusions