Promoting Computing in the Postwar United States—The Case of UCLA
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2023
In the mid-1940s, a differential analyzer and an electronic digital computer acquired by UCLA made large-scale computing available to staff and students there and in surrounding industries. To serve these users, the university fostered both new professional organizations and pioneering curricula in what would later be called computer science.