50 Years of Computing at UNC
Thursday, March 18 2010
by Frank Stasio and Katy Barron
U.N.C. Photo Lab., No. 19092
A panel discussion on the use of computing in academia takes place today on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. It marks the 50th anniversary of the university’s very first computation center—a basement room that had to be reinforced with steel beams to support the 64,000 pound behemoth computer it housed. Larry Conrad, UNC’s chief information officer, joins host Frank Stasio to reminisce about the early days of campus technology and to discuss where it’s headed next.
