Harry Earl Goheen interview: August 15, 1972: Participant: Mrs. Goheen
Håkan Tropp · 1999
Born in 1915, Goheen earned his doctorate from Stanford University in 1940. During the war he served with the Navy in the Pacific. In 1945, Goheen went to Boston to Join Aiken's group at Harvard University. At Harvard, Goheen helped in the Writing of the Manual of Operations for the MARK I Calculator and computing Bessel functions. He comments on Aiken, his relationship with him and how others perceived Aiken. Recounts some anecdotes related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) meeting held at Columbia and some of the discussions held there. Goheen taught at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University before joining the Moore School in 1950 to work on the design of telescopic systems. Goheen discusses his work there in addition to other various topics and colleagues. Mentions Dick Bloch, Howard Aiken, John von Neumann, and Ed Berkeley.