14 Facts About Bruce Gilchrist

Bruce Gilchrist is considered one of the notable figures in modern computing history.

Bruce Gilchrist harbored a keen interest in computing and computing devices from an early age.

Bruce Gilchrist worked with Dr Jule Charney, a gifted meteorologist and mathematician, on weather prediction calculations, programming the institute's IAS machine.

Bruce Gilchrist worked in the area of computers at IAS.

Bruce Gilchrist was married in Princeton in April 1954 and his eldest son, Ian, was born there in February 1956.

In 1955, John von Neumann left the Institute for Advanced Study to join the United States Atomic Energy Commission and so, in the summer of 1956, the group Bruce Gilchrist had been working with, broke up.

In 1956, Bruce Gilchrist accepted an invitation to be an assistant professor of mathematics and the first director of the computer center at Syracuse University where they had ordered an IBM 650 computer which was delivered a few months after he arrived that summer.

So, Bruce Gilchrist joined IBM in 1959 where some years later he later became director of planning with its service bureau subsidiary, Service Bureau Corporation, from 1963 to 1965.

Bruce Gilchrist served as secretary and vice president of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Bruce Gilchrist later became director of the Columbia University Computer Center at Columbia University in New York City from 1973 to 1985.

Bruce Gilchrist was a member of the faculty of engineering at Columbia.

Bruce Gilchrist lived in Chappaqua from 1959 to 2008, after which he moved to Richmond, Virginia, with his wife, Bette.

Bruce Gilchrist is survived by his three sons Ian, James, and Andrew.

Bruce Gilchrist had five grandchildren with Littlefield: Ian, Juliann, Anthony, Carson, and Griffin.