1. Cuthbert Corwin Hurd was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in helping the International Business Machines Corporation develop its first general-purpose computers.
13 Facts About Cuthbert Hurd
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Cuthbert Hurd did post-doctorate work at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Cuthbert Hurd was assistant professor at Michigan State University from 1936 to 1942.
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Cuthbert Hurd taught and later served as a technical research head under Alston Scott Householder.
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Cuthbert Hurd asked if the SSEC could be used for calculations being done at Oak Ridge for the NEPA project to power an airplane with a nuclear reactor, but the demands for the SSEC produced a backlog.
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Cuthbert Hurd hired a team who would be the first professional computer software writers, such as John Backus and Fred Brooks.
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In 1953 Cuthbert Hurd convinced IBM management to develop what became the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine.
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On January 19,1955, Hurd became director of the IBM Electronic Data Processing Machines Division when T Vincent Learson was promoted to Vice President of Sales.
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In 1955, Cuthbert Hurd made a proposal to Edward Teller for a computer to be used at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
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Cuthbert Hurd then consulted for various firms in Silicon Valley, and served as an expert witness in the IBM antitrust cases.
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From 1978 to 1986, Hurd served as chairman for Picodyne Corporation, which he co-founded with H Dean Brown.
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Cuthbert Hurd was president and chairman until Quintus was sold to Intergraph Corporation in October 1989.
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Cuthbert Hurd endowed scholarships in Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford University.