Brooks on Stretch and Harvest

From an oral history of Fred Brooks, ACM Turing award winner, available in text form and in video form, a couple of clips below. One on IBM’s Stretch machine and the Harvest add-on for the NSA, and the other on Aiken and Iverson as people to work with, or for:

via the translation on @Maurici_Carbo’s blog

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+EdS:
Thanks for to make this post!
It was a pending work for me
The interview is 2 hours long:
I’ve made a translation to castilian (some times named spanish erroneously).
Is so long that is necessary to make 2 entries in blogger:

and:

The original file in english is here:

It has been a pleasure to translate this text!.

Maurici.

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