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Dr. John von Neumann at the dedication of the NORD

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Dr. John von Neumann speaking on the occasion of the first public showing of the IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORD) December 2, 1954. The complete speech appears in von Neumann's collected works, vol. V, MacMillan 1961. I digitized it from a cassette tape provided by Dr. Goldstine. I made a DAT copy of the cassette at 48,000 kHz stereo 16-bit linear encoding, Which I then loaded into an SGI workstation and used SOUNDFILER to crunch it down to 8 kHz mono in 8-bit mu-law encoding. Mr. President, Mr Chairman, President ?Church, Mr. and Mrs. Watson, ??? Julia, ladies and gentlemen, let me thank you first of all for a very kind introduction. I don't know how to comment on it. I first of all hope that I'm, and I know for sure that I'm expressing the same sentiment which everybody who has been involved in this thinking about computing machines, using computing machines, expecting to use computing machines, probably feels at this moment, namely, a sense of an obligation to express o

Dr. John von Neumann at the dedication of the NORD ENIAC U. S. Army Dr. John von Neumann at the dedication of the NORD Dr. John von Neumann speaking on the occasion of the first public showing of the IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORD) December 2, 1954. The complete speech appears in von Neumann's collected works, vol. V, MacMillan 1961. I digitized it from a cassette tape provided by Dr. Goldstine. I made a DAT copy of the cassette at 48,000 kHz stereo 16-bit linear encoding, Which I then loaded into an SGI workstation and used SOUNDFILER to crunch it down to 8 kHz mono in 8-bit mu-

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