Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 - August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer honored for real-time data acquisition and recording work that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes. For General Electric he designed, with colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 mainframe computer in 1959, and cited as his greatest contribution the first computer-controlled point-of-sale cash register. His children include filmmaker Steven Spielberg, screenwriter Anne Spielberg, and producer Nancy Spielberg.
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Why does the GE-225 matter to the history of programming languages?
Dartmouth developed BASIC on the GE-225 that Spielberg and Propster designed.
The GE-225 was the mainframe that Arnold Spielberg and Charles Propster designed at General Electric in the late 1950s. According to an Associated Press obituary, it was the machine that let computer scientists at Dartmouth College develop the programming language BASIC, which later became important to the rise of personal computers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 – August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer.
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Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 - August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer.
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He was instrumental in contributions to "real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes".
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Arnold Meyer Spielberg
Wikidata P166: Computer Pioneer Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): Computer Pioneer Award.
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