Call Number: OH 213
Interviewee: Barnes, Bruce H.
Interviewer: William Aspray
Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Description: Transcript, 23 pp.
Abstract: Barnes describes his duties as a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He provides brief overviews and examples of NSF's support of research in theoretical computer science, computer architecture, numerical methods, and software engineering, and the development of networking. He describes NSF's support for the development of computing facilities through the Coordinated Experimental Research Program.
Subject(s):
National Science Foundation (U.S.). -- Coordinated Experimental Research Program ; Federal aid to research -- United States ; Computer science -- Research ; Computer science -- History ; Computer networks -- United States -- Research ; Computer architecture -- Research ; Barnes, Bruce H. ; Software engineering -- Research
Citation: Bruce H. Barnes, OH 213. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 26 September 1990, Washington, D.C. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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