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A Dictionary of Computer Science (7 ed.)

... programmer team A programming team in which responsibility for program design and implementation rests entirely with one highly skilled member, the chief programmer . The other team members provide various forms of support. A typical team could consist of the chief programmer, a backup programmer, librarian, administrator, and secretary: the backup programmer assists the chief programmer and is able to take over that role if necessary; the librarian maintains all technical documents on the project, such as design documents, source modules (in all...

Ellison, Lawrence Joseph (1944)   Reference library

The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management

...but left after two years without taking a degree. He moved to California in 1966 , apparently with the idea of studying medicine at the University of California, but he was already becoming fascinated with computers and had developed his skills as a programmer. From 1967 to 1971 he worked as a programmer and systems architect with Amdahl Corporation, a high-tech start-up near Santa Clara, California. He became particularly interested in relational databases, a new type of software program that began development around 1970 . In 1972 , seeing only...

Digital Approaches to the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade   Reference library

Daryle Williams

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources

...field research and encoding in the early days of digital work in the history of the slave trade were conducted in isolation. The research method may have been collaborative and team-based as research teams relied upon models of sponsored research and institutional resource utilization that were unlike the traditional lone humanities scholar. Nonetheless, individual research teams still operated independently, with different protocols, technologies, and languages. Machine-readable data sets and statistical software permitted the sharing and repurposing of raw...

Stem Education, Economic Productivity, and Social Justice   Reference library

David E. Drew

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration

...both occasions ( Drew, 1992 ). A report produced by the chief economist of the United States concluded: Women filled 47 percent of all U.S. jobs in 2015 but held only 24 percent of STEM jobs. Likewise, women constitute slightly more than half of college educated workers but make up only 25 percent of college educated STEM workers. ( Noonan, 2017 , p. 1) While these statistics are about the workforce, the problem starts earlier. Noonan reports that only 30% of all STEM degree holders are women. A team of UCLA researchers ( Sax et al., 2016 ) traced the...

Engineering   Reference library

Ann Johnson

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology

...but remained part of the War Department and was still overseen by the chief engineer of the United States. In 1838 under Secretary of War Joel Poinsett, a further refinement led to all civil engineering projects being assigned to the Corps of Topographical Engineers under the supervision of Colonel John James Abert, West Pointer and the chief of the Topographical Bureau. All military projects, including surveys, were then handed off to the Corps of Engineers under newly appointed chief engineer Joseph Totten. Totten’s command would last into the Civil War....

Digital Resources: The Documented Border   Reference library

Celeste González de Bustamante and Verónica Reyes-Escudero

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture

...The digital archive was developed by the project team, content providers, and a digital initiatives archivist, who worked in conjunction with programmers. In early discussions, the project team established the desire to make the oral interviews and sketches available in an open-access environment. The University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections had already established an open-access platform through Omeka. Nevertheless, it was imperative that the project’s team leaders have discussions with the programmers and the digital initiatives archivist to...

Technology—Computer   Reference library

William Sims BAINBRIDGE

Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (2 ed.)

...it was used by large corporations for financial record-keeping and similar applications. Much of the research work was done at universities, and the availability of a few mainframe computers on campus gave scientists the chance to adapt them to many research purposes. ENIAC programmers in the Ballistic Research Laboratory Building 328, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (c. 1947–1955 ). From Historical Monograph: Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps by K. Kempf (n.d.). The Personal Computer The birth of the computer industry involved nothing less than...