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Name
  
Eldon Hall

Role
  
Computer scientist

Books
  
Journey to the moon


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Education
  
Boston University, Eastern Nazarene College, Harvard University

Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) at MIT, and advocated the use of integrated circuits for this task. He has written extensively of the development of the AGC, culminating in his 1996 book, Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer (ISBN 1-56347-185-X)

He pursued his undergraduate education at the Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, his graduate education at Boston University in Boston, and his doctoral degree at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Publications

  • Eldon C. Hall (2000). From the Farm to Pioneering with Digital Computers: An Autobiography.
  • Eldon C. Hall (1996). Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer
  • References

    Eldon C. Hall Wikipedia


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