Arnold Spielberg

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.