George Stibitz
Stibitz’s relay calculators showed that telephone relays could perform binary arithmetic, and his 1940 demonstration is an early, well-documented instance of remote computer access.
George Stibitz worked at Bell Laboratories on relay-based calculation. His home-built “Model K” demonstrated binary addition; Bell Labs later developed the Complex Number Calculator from related relay techniques.
Remote operation
At an American Mathematical Society meeting in 1940, attendees used a Teletype connection to operate the Complex Number Calculator in New York from Dartmouth. The event is a significant early example of remote computing.
In memoriam
Stibitz died in 1995. His papers and artifacts continue to support research on the formative period of digital computing.
Timeline
- 1904-04-30Born in York, Pennsylvania.
- 1936Builds the relay-based Model K adder.
- 1940Demonstrates remote operation of the Complex Number Calculator.
- 1995-01-31Dies in Hanover, New Hampshire.
George Stibitz
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1936-1995
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1995
- Known for
- relay computing; remote computing; bell labs; binary arithmetic
- Tags
- relay computing, remote computing, bell labs, binary arithmetic
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