Modeling

History

Courses
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www.dgatx.com
2007 Dec 29

My professional career with electronic digital computers began in 1961 as a programmer for the Kansas Geological Survey as a sophomore on the campus of The University of Kansas. These pages describe some of my past and present interests in these amazing, and sometimes infuriating, machines.

Digital Modeling. Most of my career has been involved in research in mathematical modeling of digital computing systems. That interest began in the late 1960's as a graduate student in computer sciences at The University of Wisconsin at Madison, wound its way through The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor of computer sciences and associate director of the Institute for Computing Science and Computer Applications, and culminated as president and chairman of Computational Logic, Inc.

Donald I Good
dgatx@earthlink.net

History of Computing. As I thought about ways of bringing CLInc's research into engineering practice, I began to wonder. How has that happened before? Exploring that question led to a continuing interest in the history of computing. What you will find here is a small, but growing, collection of some parts of that history.

After an absence of over 20 years, I returned in the fall semesters of 2002-2004 to the academic world to develop and teach a course in the history of computing for computer science majors at UT Austin. That was a rewarding and enlightening experience, and my interest in that area continues.