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Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Robert Lucky, 1991
Part of From the Vault. Part of Considering Our Tech-nostalgia.
03/04/1991
Full-length interview with Robert Wendell Lucky. Portions of this interview were featured in episodes from the WGBH/BBC Series, The Machine That Changed The World. The Machine That Changed The World was a five part series chronicling the personalities and events of the computer revolution. Program traces the history of the development of the computer to the modern personal computer, to future developments on the horizon. Focus on history of computers from 19th century to PC, present day applications, and future developments. Robert Lucky is an electrical engineer and inventor who worked at Telcordia Technologies, formally Bell Communications Research, Inc., and Bell Laboratories. He is the inventor of the adaptive equalizer, which automatically adapts to the time-varying properties of the communication channel. Select metadata for this record was submitted by John Campopiano.
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- Series
- Machine That Changed The World, The
- Title
Interview with Robert Lucky, 1991
- Series Description
Five part series chronicling the personalities and events of the computer revolution. Program traces the history of development of computer to the modern personal computer, to future developments on the horizon. Focus on history of computers from 19th century to PC, present day applications, and future developments. Featured participants include J. Presper Eckert; Thomas Watson, Jr; Steve Wozniak; Steve Jobs; William H. Gates; Marvin Minsky; Mitchell Kapor. Narrated by Will Lyman.
101: Giant Brains; 102: Inventing the Future; 103: The Paperback Computer; 104: The Thinking Machine; 105: The World at Your Fingertips. Series release date: 1992
- Duration
01:19:40
- Asset Type
Raw video
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Personal Computers
- Lucky, Robert Wayne
- Information Technology
- Computer software--Development--United States
- Adaptive Equalizer
- Microprocessors--United States--History
- Communication Channel
- Computer software developers--United States
- Computer software--Development--History
- Interactive Computing
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Technology
- Contributors
- Lucky, Robert Wayne (Interviewee)
- Publication Information
- A WGBH Boston/BBC TV co-production in association with NDR Hamburg
- Citation
- Chicago: “Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Robert Lucky, 1991,” 03/04/1991, GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_A77C972F922248CB81348270B1FA8AE2.
- MLA: “Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Robert Lucky, 1991.” 03/04/1991. GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_A77C972F922248CB81348270B1FA8AE2>.
- APA: Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Robert Lucky, 1991. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_A77C972F922248CB81348270B1FA8AE2