Cambridge Scientific Center
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The IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, established in February 1964 by Norm Rasmussen, was situated at 545 Technology Square (Tech Square), Cambridge, Massachusetts
in the same building as MIT
's Project MAC. It was later renamed the IBM Scientific Center.
The center is most notable for creating CP-40 and CP/CMS
.
The IBM Data Processing Division (DPD) sponsored five Scientific Center research groups in the United States and some others around the world to work with selected universities on a variety of customer-related projects.
The IBM Research
Division in Yorktown Heights, NY was a separate laboratory organization that tended more to "pure" research topics. The DPD Scientific Centers in the late 1960s were located in Palo Alto, California, Houston, Texas, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Grenoble, France. The IBM Time-Life Programming Center in Manhattan, New York worked with the scientific centers but had a slightly different reporting line.
The Cambridge Scientific Center worked with computing groups at both MIT and Harvard, in the same building as Project MAC and the IBM Boston Programming Center (BPC). Additional joint projects involved the MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the outskirts of Boston and Brown University in Providence, RI.
The scientific center in 1969 had three main departments: Computer Graphics under Craig Johnson, Operations Research under John Harmon, and Operating Systems under Richard (Rip) Parmelee. The center manager was Norman Rasmussen.
IBM closed the center on July 31, 1992.
system," IBM Systems Journal 9, No.3, 199-218
(1970).
R. P. Parmelee, T. L. Peter~on, C. C. Tillman, and D. J.
Hatfield, "Virtual storage and virtual machine concepts," IBM
Systems Journal 11, No.2, 99-130 (1972).
E. C. Hendricks and T. C. Hartmann, "Evolution of a virtual
machine subsystem," IBM Systems Journal 18, No.1, 111-
142 (1979).
L. H. Holley, R. P. Parmelee, C. A. Salisbury, and D. N. Saul,
"VM/370 asymmetric multiprocessing," IBM Systems Journal
18, No.1, 47-70 (1979).
L. H. Seawright and R. A. MacKinnon, "VM/370-a study
of mUltiplicity and usefulness," IBM Systems Journal 18, No.
1, 4-17 (1979).
R. J. Creasy, "The origin of the VM/370 time-sharing system,"
IBM Journal of Research and Development 25, No.5, 483-
490 (September 1981).
F. T. Kozuh, D. L. Livingston, and T. C. Spillman, "System/
370 capability in a desktop computer," IBM Systems
Journal 23, No.3, 245-254 (1984).
Y. Bard, "The VM Performance Planning Facility (VMPPF),"Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Transactions 53, 53- 59 (Summer 1986).
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
in the same building as MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
's Project MAC. It was later renamed the IBM Scientific Center.
The center is most notable for creating CP-40 and CP/CMS
CP/CMS
CP/CMS was a time-sharing operating system of the late 60s and early 70s, known for its excellent performance and advanced features...
.
The IBM Data Processing Division (DPD) sponsored five Scientific Center research groups in the United States and some others around the world to work with selected universities on a variety of customer-related projects.
The IBM Research
IBM Research
IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects....
Division in Yorktown Heights, NY was a separate laboratory organization that tended more to "pure" research topics. The DPD Scientific Centers in the late 1960s were located in Palo Alto, California, Houston, Texas, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Grenoble, France. The IBM Time-Life Programming Center in Manhattan, New York worked with the scientific centers but had a slightly different reporting line.
The Cambridge Scientific Center worked with computing groups at both MIT and Harvard, in the same building as Project MAC and the IBM Boston Programming Center (BPC). Additional joint projects involved the MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the outskirts of Boston and Brown University in Providence, RI.
The scientific center in 1969 had three main departments: Computer Graphics under Craig Johnson, Operations Research under John Harmon, and Operating Systems under Richard (Rip) Parmelee. The center manager was Norman Rasmussen.
IBM closed the center on July 31, 1992.
Selected Publications
R. A. Meyer and L. H. Seawright, "A virtual machine timesharingsystem," IBM Systems Journal 9, No.3, 199-218
(1970).
R. P. Parmelee, T. L. Peter~on, C. C. Tillman, and D. J.
Hatfield, "Virtual storage and virtual machine concepts," IBM
Systems Journal 11, No.2, 99-130 (1972).
E. C. Hendricks and T. C. Hartmann, "Evolution of a virtual
machine subsystem," IBM Systems Journal 18, No.1, 111-
142 (1979).
L. H. Holley, R. P. Parmelee, C. A. Salisbury, and D. N. Saul,
"VM/370 asymmetric multiprocessing," IBM Systems Journal
18, No.1, 47-70 (1979).
L. H. Seawright and R. A. MacKinnon, "VM/370-a study
of mUltiplicity and usefulness," IBM Systems Journal 18, No.
1, 4-17 (1979).
R. J. Creasy, "The origin of the VM/370 time-sharing system,"
IBM Journal of Research and Development 25, No.5, 483-
490 (September 1981).
F. T. Kozuh, D. L. Livingston, and T. C. Spillman, "System/
370 capability in a desktop computer," IBM Systems
Journal 23, No.3, 245-254 (1984).
Y. Bard, "The VM Performance Planning Facility (VMPPF),"Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Transactions 53, 53- 59 (Summer 1986).