Massachusetts Instittute of Technology Bulletin 1956
YEAR: 1956
ITEM: Periodical
COMPANY: MIT
COUNTRY: USA
IN OUR COLLECTION: Yes
Academic catalog (both undergraduate and graduate) of majors, courses, faculty, and staff for M.I.T. Ths is the second of two catalogs owned by "J. Stone". We received this item from Tamar Stone his daughter in NYC.
There was no separate computer department at this time but under the Electrical Engineering Department we found three graduate courses related to computers. The department was renamed the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department in 1975. There does not seem to be much difference between this and the 1955 catalog with regard to computing except that, oddly enough, the department seems to have dropped a computing course from the previous year. The course that was dropped was 6.537 DIGITAL COMPUTER APPLICATIONS PRACTICE (see related items).
Below are two courses that were being offered in 1956:
6.538 ELECTRONIC COMPUTATIONAL LABORATORY (A) Study of the basic principles of digital computers by experiments on the following equipment: card punches, sorters, accounting machines, electronic calculator, and the card programmed calculator. Actual programming and operations of a digital computer by the solution of several problems on the Card Programmed Calculator. Type 650 Magnetic Drum Calculator, and the Type 704 Electronic Calculator...
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Related Item 1: Massachusetts Instittute of Technology Bulletin 1955
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