“Robert Rex Seeber Jr.”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

As a mathmetician, Seeber began his career as section head, actuarial, at the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., from 1932-42. From 1942-45, he did civilian research on submarine, anti-submarine, air, and anti-air operations for the U.S. Navy. He also performed mathematical computing for the Navy.^[4]

The balance of Seeber's professional life was as a computer architect and inventor at International Business Machines Corp. from 1945-68.^[5] Seeber's first project at IBM was the SSEC. He was an advocate of modifiable instruction sets. For this machine was developed the stored-program concept, the basis of modern computing machines.^[6]^[7] As a senior staff member of the Department of Pure Science for IBM, he was responsible for supervision of the computation and educational activities at the Watson Laboratory.^[8]

Seeber was also the inventor of the "Wordwriter" an IBM Selectric typewriter with a memory capable of storing 42 eighteen-character words and phrases, selected by the operator. Stored words were selected by pressing a foot pedal at the same time as striking the letter to which the word is keyed. The machine featured optional automatic capitalization and hyphenation.^[9]

Partial list of awards

References

1. ^American Men of Science: A Biological Directory, The Physical and Biological Sciences, Supplement 4, edited by The Jaques Cattell Press, Eleventh Edition. R.R. Bowker Company. New York & London. 1968. p. 520.
2. ^Charles J. Bache, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh, IBM's Early Computers. The MIT Press. 1986. p. 48-49.
3. ^American Men of Science: A Biological Directory, The Physical and Biological Sciences, Supplement 4, edited by The Jaques Cattell Press, Eleventh Edition. R.R. Bowker Company. New York & London. 1968. p. 520.
4. ^American Men of Science: A Biological Directory, The Physical and Biological Sciences, Supplement 4, edited by The Jaques Cattell Press, Eleventh Edition. R.R. Bowker Company. New York & London. 1968. p. 520.
5. ^Charles J. Bache, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh, IBM's Early Computers. The MIT Press. 1986. p. 48-49.
6. ^Charles J. Bache, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh, IBM's Early Computers. The MIT Press. 1986. p. 48, p. 612n32.
7. ^Emerson William Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. The MIT Press. 1991. p. 681.
8. ^Mary Ellen Thomsen, "Typist's Dream" in Harvard Alumni Bulletin, January 14, 1956.
9. ^Mary Ellen Thomsen, "Typist's Dream" in Harvard Alumni Bulletin, January 14, 1956.