Scan of materials for "The Computer, the Academy, the World," a symposium celebrating Prof. Andy van Dam's 60th birthday. The materials include the invitation, final …
Photo of the Applied Math faculty around 1970. Computer Science professors seen in the photo: Dave Lewis, Clem McGowan, Charles Strauss, Andy van Dam, Peter …
Scan of an article titled "Exxon contributes $64G for new learning-retrieval system," published in the "Brown Daily Herald" on December 13, 1973. The article discusses …
Scan of the article "One Giant Step for Educational Computing." This article describes the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) project called Intermedia. …
Scan of "The Brown University Graphics Group," an article in the "Brown University Computing Review," vol. 2, no. 1. This article is by George Stabler …
Photo of the cover of the Brown University Student Operating System manual. SOS was an interpreted "subset" of the IBM System/360 used for teaching machine …
Photo of the reference card for the Brown University Student Operating System. SOS was an interpreted "subset" of the IBM System/360 used for teaching machine …
PDF of Hal Webber's story "Rise from the Ashes," about the electrical destruction and subsequent reconstruction of the Meta 4A and B computers. These machines …
Scan of "Doctor Memory: An Eidetic Memory System." This facility was a component of the Brown University Graphics System (BUGS) that allowed users to maintain …
Scan of "Brown University Graphics System FUDD Debugging Package: A Users' Guide" by Russell Burns. FUDD was the interactive debugger for BUGS, allowing the user …
Scan of the "BUGS Glossary." This document defines many terms pertinent to the Brown University Graphics System (BUGS), a multi-processor graphics system designed and implemented …
Scan of the "Graphics Monitor System User's Guide." GMS was the interactive operating system that ran on the BUGS Meta 4A, which was the general-purpose …
Scan of the "ICOPS Application Development Manual," which describes a system for writing distributed applications that run on the IBM S/360 and BUGS simultaneously. ICOPS …