Electronic Computer History : 1940 - 2000

The changing relationship between education and marriage in the United States, 1940-2000.

In 1940, when gender specialization was high, there was a negative relationship between education and marriage for women. College-educated women were least likely to be currently married and most likely to be never married. Declines in specialization were accompanied by a transition in this relationship. By 2000, when gender specialization was low, there was a positive relationship between educ...

The Rise and Sale of the General Electric Computer Department: A Further Look

1058-6180/00/$10.00 © 2000 IEEE 53 In 1994, the General Electric (GE) Computer Department Alumni Association held its triannual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. This was the opportunity to interview a number of the pioneers of the Electronic Recording Machine Accounting (ERMA) project and those who continued to embellish GE’s capabilities in computer design and manufacture until the merger with ...

What Do We Know about Macroeconomics That Fisher and Wicksell Did Not?

This essay argues that the history of macroeconomics during the twentieth century can be divided into three epochs. Pre-1940: a period of exploration, during which all the right ingredients were developed. But also a period where confusion reigned, because of the lack of an integrated framework. From 1940 to 1980: a period during which an integrated framework was developed—from the IS-LM to dyn...

Pioneering: On the Frontier of Electronic Data Processing, a Personal Memoir

A brief network analysis of Artificial Intelligence publication

In this paper, we present an illustration to the history of Artificial Intelligence(AI) with a statistical analysis of publish since 1940. We collected and mined through the IEEE publish data base to analysis the geological and chronological variance of the activeness of research in AI. The connections between different institutes are showed. The result shows that the leading community of AI re...