Gordon D. Goldstein Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Goldstein, Gordon D.
label: Names
content: ENIAC.
label: Names
content: Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).
label: Names
content: Remington Rand.
topic: label: Topic
content: Seac computer
label: Topic
content: Systems engineering
label: Topic
content: Univac computer
label: Topic
content: Computers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Gordon D. Goldstein on December 13, 1978.
creator: label: Creator
content: Goldstein, Gordon D.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Gordon D. Goldstein Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Papers relate to Gordon D. Goldstein, a computer engineer and frequent seminar speaker and participant, especially in the fields of linguistics and machine translation.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Born in 1917, Gordon D. Goldstein graduated from Clarkson College of Technology with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. In 1941, Goldstein took a job with the Army Signal Corp as a civilian inspector of radio and navigation equipment. After leaving the Army Signal Corp, Goldstein took a job as development engineer at the Washington Institute of Technology where he was employed until 1950. From 1950 to 1951 he worked as chief engineer with computers for the Census Bureau in Philadelphia.

In 1951, Goldstein left the Census Bureau and took a job with the Navy Department. During his tenure there, Goldstein worked in three offices or divisions: the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (electronics scientist), the David Taylor Model Basin's Applied Mathematics Laboratory, and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Information Systems Program where he was involved with applications of UNIVAC I. Goldstein worked in the Office of Naval Research from 1956 until his retirement in 1980.

Sources

Berkeley, Edmund C., ed. Who's Who in Computers and Data Processing 1971: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Computer Professionals. New York: The New York Times Book and Educational Division, 1971.

Gordon D. Goldstein Papers, 1950-1979. Charles Babbage Institute: Center for the History of Information Processing.

Williams, Michael R. A History of Computing Technology. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948 - 1957
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The collection was transferred from the Division of Information, Technology and Communication (now Division of Medicine and Science) to the Archives Center on June 28, 1996.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0554
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Technical manuals
label: Type
content: Design drawings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into 5 series.

Series 1, National Bureau of Standards, Electronic Computers Section/Standards Eastern Automatic Computer, 1948-1953

Series 2, U.S. Navy/Applied Mathematics Laboratory, 1950-1957

Series 3, UNIVAC-Remington Rand Corporation/Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, 1948--956

Series 4, UNIVAC Conferences, 1950-1956

Series 5, Publications and Competitor Materials, 1950-1955
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by John M. Murphy, intern, August 1998; supervised by Alison Oswald, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Technical manuals -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Design drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Goldstein Collection documents an interesting and important period in the development of the early computer industry. Many of the items in the collection are technical in nature; others, however, provide an interesting perspective on the development of post-war American culture. Items in the collection include design and training materials, operational manuals, professional literature, advertisements and promotional items, photographs, business and office documentation, and conference and seminar materials.

The collection is divided into five series. The first three series correspond to Goldstein's employment history; the fourth series includes notes and minutes from UNIVAC and computer conferences attended by Goldstein; and the fifth series contains general computer publications and computer advertisements. Of particular interest in the last series is a copy of the 1954 Report to the Association for Computing Machinery: First Glossary of Programming Terminology. This item was edited by Grace Murray Hopper.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials in Other Organizations

The Charles Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Information Processing houses the Gordon D. Goldstein Papers, 1950-1979, http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/cbi00068.xml 

Archives Center, National Museum of American History houses the Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977 http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_comporalhist_index.aspx