I need some helpI'm trying to gather some information about the computing center directors at the sites that ran MTS. I've got some information, but I need help from others to fill in the gaps, provide details, and double check the facts that I have. A few photos are posted in the images section, but more and better photos are needed.OverviewThis is what I have to start [with some more recent updates added]:University of Michigan Computing Center (UM)Computing Center (VP Research)-->Computing Center (within Information Technology Division, Vice-provost for IT under Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs)-->Research Systems (within ITD)-->Information Technology Central Services (ITCS)-->Information Technology Services (ITS)Robert C. F. Bartels, 1959-1977 Allen (Al) R. Emery, 1977-1978 (interim) Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Univ. of Michigan Dearborn; B.A. 1951, Ohio Wesleyan University; Ph.D. 1957, University of Michigan, Research interests: Chemistry and computers. Aaron Finerman, 1978-1986 Carolyn Autrey-Hunley, 1986-1990 Greg Marks (acting Director of Research Systems?) [?] Bert Herzog, Director of Research Systems [?] University of British Columbia Computing Centre (UBC)Computing Centre -> Computing Services -> IT Services -> UBC ITT. E. Hull ?-1964? [first director, prior to MTS, ?] James Kennedy, 1966-1980 Alvin Fowler, 1981-1985[?] Jack Leigh 1987-? Carol Bird Ted Dodds Oliver Grueter-Andrew Northumbrian Universities Multiple Access Computer (NUMAC)at University of Newcastle upon Tyne (NCL), University of Durham (DUR), and Newcastle Polypart of the Computer Laboratory Computer Laboratory was split into the University Computing Service and the Department of Computing Science in 1992 Ewan S. Page, 1957-1980 Harry Whitfield, 1980-1992 Elizabeth Barraclough, Computer Manager for NUMAC 1967, Executive Director Computer Laboratory, [?] Tony Young [?] John Lindlay [?] University of Alberta Computing Center, later Department of Computing Services (UQV) [correct names?]Donald ScottDale Bent, 1971-1986, first director of Computing Services Grant Crawford, 1986-? Bruce Miller, 1987-? [? Director of UCS] Ken Porteous, 1989-? Monica Beltrametti, 1991-? Wayne State University Computing and Data Processing Center (WSU)
Wayne University Computer Laboratory, Arvid Jacobson, Director, ~1948 to 1957Computer development Group, Harry Huskey, Project Director, 1950? to ? Walter Hoffman, Assistant Director, 1954? to 1957, Acting Director, 1957 to 1959, Director, 1959 to 1962 Computing and Data Processing Center (CDPC), 1962 to 1977 Walter Hoffman, Director, 1962 to 1969 Charles Briggs, Associate Director, 1962 to ~1974 Roger Hardenbergh, Assistant Director, 1962 to 1972 Robert Monroe, Assistant (later Associate) Director, mid 1960s to 1982 Robert Jones, Associate Director, ~1968 to late 1970s Robert Hubbard, Acting Director, 1969 to 1970 IBM 360/67 delivered mid-1970 Frank Westervelt, Director, fall 1970 to 1982 MTS service at WSU starts, fall 1970 Roger Nys, Acting Director, 1982Computing Services Center (CSC), 1977 to 1982 Computing & Information Technology division (C&IT), 1982 to present Mort Rahimi, Director, 1982 to early 1990sSee A Brief History of Computing at Wayne State University (1947-1979), Booklet by Robert Monroe, Computing Services Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, c. 1979, 12 pp., PDF/A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Office of Computing Services and later Information Technology ServicesJames Moss, 1973-1984 (added by Garance)Bob Gallagher, 1984-1995 (start date added by Garance) John Kolb, 1995-present (added by Garance) Simon Frasier University (SFU)SFU Computing Centre, later Computing Services, later still IT ServicesRoss Jewell, ?-1976 Will Jones, 1976-? [?] Biographical informationRobert C. F. Bartels, see the November 1977 Ann Arbor News article about Bob Bartels' retirement in the Documents and files section, a video, photos, and a memory book from the September 2004 reception honoring Bob, and Dr. Bartels' obituary in the November 2006 University Record.Memoir: Regents' Proceedings, July 1, 1978
In 1981 Aaron Finerman received the ACM Distinguished Servide Award for "his extensive and productive participation in the management of professional society policies and operations. Dr. Finerman has been actively involved in the Space Program and other technical activities worldwide in addition to his years of service to such organizations as SHARE, AFIPS, and ACM." Memoir from UM Regents’ Proceedings, March 1990, Page 187. From http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9914;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-9914;subview=standard;focusrgn=bioghist;cc=bhlead;byte=39352330: Elizabeth Barraclough, see the articles in the Documents and files section upon the occasion of Elizabeth becoming an Honorary Fellow of the University of Newcastle in October 2006. James Macoun Kennedy (1928-2004) Dr. James M. Kennedy served on the University of British Columbia Senate from 1969 to 1975 as a Representative of Joint Faculties. After more than a decade working with Atomic Energy of Canada, Dr. Kennedy joined UBC in January 1966 as the Director of the Computing Centre, a position he held until June 1980. In addition, he became a professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1968. From 1980 to 1984, Dr. Kennedy served in the President's Office as Vice-President of University Services. As well as a valuable member of the UBC community, Dr. Kennedy was a founding member of the Canadian Information Processing Society, He served as an officer of the Canadian Mathematical Association, the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Canadian Applied Mathematics Association; and as a board member of Vancouver Community College and the Management Advisory Council of BC Colleges and Provincial Institutes. Alvin G. Fowler (1935-1999) Al Fowler, a long standing member of the UILO, passed away February 1999 after a brief battle with cancer. A popular and innovative administrator, Al served as UBC’s Director of Computing Centre from 1981. Under his practical direction the Computing Center rapidly expanded. In 1985 he was seconded from the Computing Centre to successfully organize and implement a new telecommunications system for UBC. In 1986 he joined the Industry Liaison Office as Manager of Intellectual Properties, where his dynamic vision, practical knowledge, and broad interpersonal skills helped make the UILO one of the best in Canada. Al served as a member of the Canadian Information Processing Society from 1965 and was National President in 1981/82. He was a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of BC, a founding member of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, and UBC Research Enterprises Inc.’s first President. Al also helped to establish many new UBC spin-off companies in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island, and served on the board of directors in several of these companies. Al was a generous colleague and friend whose life contributed to the moral and social life of the University as well as its intellectual community. Ewan Page From The Computer Journal, Volume 21, Number 2 (1978), page 104: Ewan Page was a research student in the Statistics Laboratory at Cambridge from 1951-54. This was the period when the EDS AC came into service and Page was so much taken by it that he was seen as much in the Mathematics Laboratory as in the Statistics Laboratory. He had a foretaste of later prosperity when he won a prize of £5000 in a football pool, having filled in the coupon, so it was rumoured, with the aid of Tippet's random sampling numbers. Perhaps he felt that this was unprofessional behaviour for a statistician for he decided to make computing rather than statistics his life's work. He built up the Computing Laboratory at Newcastle and it was here that he acquired a taste for university administration. He sharpened his teeth on the Computer Board and in doing so demonstrated his prowess to such an extent that the University made him a pro-Vice Chancellor. When Dr Henry Miller died suddenly in the summer of 1976 Ewan Page stepped into the breach and served with distinction as acting Vice Chancellor. He now becomes a Vice Chancellor in his own right, at Reading University, and will be the first Fellow of the British Computer Society to do so. All readers of The Computer Journal will give him their best wishes. --Maurice Wilkes Franklin Herbert Westervelt From http://www.eng.wayne.edu/user_files/180/file/Franklin%20Herbert%20Westervelt.doc: Frank Westervelt served Wayne state university from 1971-2000 in different capacities. From 1971-1982 he was the Director of Computing Service Center. From 1982-2000 he served as professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was an Associate Chair and Undergraduate Officer from 1990-1994 and was the Chair of ECE department from 1995-2000. During his tenure at Wayne State University he provided a strong leadership in university’ computing center and in ECE Department as well. He brought ECE Department on international map by starting interactive distance learning. He organized, designed, and developed Electronics Classroom in Rooms 1500 and 2409 Engineering Building. He wrote special software to ease development of electronic presentations and obtained contract to develop and deliver first ECE Course (ECE 562) to ECCE Master’s Program student at Ford Motor Company by Distance Learning methods. In honor of his services Ford Motor Company presented him with the 1993 Customer driven Quality Award as Member of Ford/Wayne State University Interactive Distance Education Program Team. (This was the only award given to any University person by Ford in 1993. This team was one of 75 teams, mostly internal to Ford, recognized by NAAO Car Products Development and Truck Operations). During his tenure at Wayne State he advised a number of Ph.D. and Master’s students, published a number of research papers, developed curriculum for a number of courses, served in a large number of Ph.D. committees, taught a large number of courses, developed teaching laboratories, contributed immensely in ABET process, and participated in several departmental and college committees including Provost’s Task force for Establishment of the Center for Teaching and Learning, University Intelligent Classroom Task Force. He was also a member of Michigan Society of Professional Engineers and Association for Computing Machinery. In addition, Frank Westervelt has made contributions to the creation of the MERIT network. In the early 1966, Michigan’s three largest schools, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University formed the Michigan Inter-university Committee on Information Systems (MICIS) whose overall purpose was to engage the universities in the "broad area of information processing and exchange by computer and other electronic media." Frank Westervelt, then at University of Michigan served as a representative of MICIS which ultimately led to MERIT network. (http://www.merit.edu/about/history/article.php) And in https://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/alumni/Stories/Gibbons.html: He [Fred Gibbons] credits the [UM] College [of Engineering] for giving a passionate direction to his drive, exposing him to computers in 1967, when they were unknown or a novelty in most classrooms. Fascinated that he could create mechanical drawings on a Calcomp plotter, Gibbons remains grateful that the College allowed him to create both bachelor’s and master’s degrees around computer science, when it didn’t even offer a formal computer major. “The school was at the forefront of technology
that turned out to be very important to me
personally, and I got early exposure to it from a
couple of great guys–professors Frank Westervelt and
Bernard Galler,” he said. And from Planning the ARPANET: 1967-1968: To explore the questions of packet size and contents, [Larry] Roberts requested Frank Westervelt of the University of Michigan write a position paper on the intercomputer communication protocol including “conventions for character and block transmission, error checking and re transmission, and computer and user identification." Publications A study of automatic system simulation programming and the analysis of the behavior of physical systems using an internally stored program computerFH Westervelt - 1960 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu Deep Blue encourages the fair use of copyrighted material, and you are free to link to content here without asking for permission. Consult the document (s) and/or contact the copyright holder for additional rights questions and requests. The use of computers in mechanical engineering educationFH Westervelt - 1962 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu Deep Blue encourages the fair use of copyrighted material, and you are free to link to content here without asking for permission. Consult the document (s) and/or contact the copyright holder for additional rights questions and requests. CONCOMP: Research in conversational use of computers: Final reportFH Westervelt - 1970 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu Deep Blue encourages the fair use of copyrighted material, and you are free to link to content here without asking for permission. Consult the document (s) and/or contact the copyright holder for additional rights questions and requests. The use of logic in solving engineering problems: Report of study on computer project supported by the Ford Foundation in the University of Michigan College of ……, DLV Katz, SO Navarro, FH Westervelt - 1962 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu Deep Blue encourages the fair use of copyrighted material, and you are free to link to content here without asking for permission. Consult the document (s) and/or contact the copyright holder for additional rights questions and requests. Digital computer use in power plant design: progress reportGV Edmonson, JS Squire, JL Stokes, FH Westervelt… - 1961 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu Deep Blue encourages the fair use of copyrighted material, and you are free to link to content here without asking for permission. Consult the document (s) and/or contact the copyright holder for additional rights questions and requests. From www.viu.ca/ccs/images/EC_ENews_1010.pdf: October 2010, Chair of The Elder College Board of Management. Dale is a semi-retired Professor of Business, currently teaching online for Athabasca University. Prior to retiring, he was with the University of Alberta, University of Western Ontario, and Victoria University of Wellington. His personal interests include environmental affairs, sailing, and music. He lives in Departure Bay with his wife Penny, a retired lawyer. Dale is co-chair of the Program Committee. From http://www.ask.com/wiki/Norman_Nie: Together with two young computer scientists, C. Hadlai (“Tex”) Hull and Dale Bent, [Norman H.] Nie invented a computer software package called the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)[1]. |
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