Property:Milestone Buildings Exist
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Do the original buildings for the milestone still exist?
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1 extant and 1 extinct - Here is a condensed history of the buildings: The building at 3747 Ridge Avenue where the A-0 compiler was invented has a cyclone fence around it and is unavailable to the public today. Current use is an interior decorating company, the owners were personally contacted but they do not want the milestone on their property. The city has a plaque on a pole outside this building as the place that invented the computer. Two poles would be clutter. Grace Hopper worked for Sperry Rand (at 1900 Alleghany Avenue) as a Director of Programming in the sixties. Information about this building came from Marvin Weinstein, who was once Chair of the Philadelphia section. He worked for Sperry Rand when Grace was Director of Programming at this address. The former Sperry Rand building at 1900 Alleghany Avenue has been replaced by a drug rehab medical center with an apartment complex to house the clients. It would be extremely difficult to get permission to locate a milestone here. Visitors would be highly disturbing to the residents. After the invention of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsylvania, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) was formed in 1946. By 1949, EMCC was brought out by Remington Rand and John Mauchly hired Grace M. Hopper. Many of the same people who worked on the ENIAC were hired from the Moore Engineering School of the University of Pennsylvania. They worked on the UNIVAC using the A-0 compiler, invented by Grace M. Hopper. It is important to note that COBOL, the later result of the A-0 compiler, became a standard computer language and is used to this day. It was promoted by many lecturers at the University of Pennsylvania, many universities across the country, and internationally by Grace M. Hopper. [3] https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/10/grace-murray-hopper-1906-1992-legacyinnovationand-service [4] https://www.computer.org/profiles/grace-hopper +
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No, the company “Nichiden Kogyo” of the inventor, Shigeichi Negishi, was located at Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan, but that company no longer exists.
However, his daughter and son each has built houses and live on the site where the former company existed.. +
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Address: 2-1-1 Nakashima, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyuushu, 802-8601 Japan; GPS: N 33.87491, E 130.87273 +
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Address: 2-1-1 Nakashima, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyuushu, 802-8601 Japan; GPS: N 33.87491, E 130.87273 +
Address: 2-1-1 Nakashima, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyuushu, 802-8601 Japan; GPS: N 33.87491, E 130.87273 +
Antenna gude blocks remain +
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As follows from before the original building where the development started is no longer extant. +
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As for both GS Yuasa Corporation and Panasonic Corporation, the original buildings are extant. On the other hand, as for Yai Dry Battery Company, this company no more exists, and hence the site of plaque for this company is now being searched for. +
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Block H is the only surviving of the two original buildings that housed the ten Colossus machines. The first four Colossus machines were installed in an adjacent Block F which was demolished in recent years to create a car park. The subsequent six machines were located in Block H.
Block H has been accorded "Listed Grade 2 Status" by the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, signifying that it is 'of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve it'." +
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Evans Hall is where the first work took place, but it is slated for demolition in the next five years. Soda Hall, the new longterm home of the Computer Science Department, is the logical choice for this plaque. +
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For Vint Cerf, no. His work on TCP was done in the Digital Research Lab, a World War II-era building that was razed to make way for the new Science & Engineering Quad, which is about 2 blocks from the Gates Computer Science Building on the Stanford campus.<br><br>For Robert Kahn, yes. While Cerf was working at Stanford, Kahn was working for DARPA in Arlington, VA. While DARPA has subsequently moved several times to other locations in Arlington, the original building where Kahn was working in the 1973-74 timeframe still exists. +
Google site: Yes. Stanford site: Yes. +
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In three of four cases, the original buildings where the semiconductor laser was first demonstrated are extant. In the case of the GE Syracuse site, the building is no longer extant and thus a single plaque at GE Niskayuna will represent both. +
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