Computing Educators Oral History Project:

I used to go to the town dump and fetch out all the old radios that were discarded and I would disassemble them and save all the good parts and reconstruct them into other parts. My friend and I, I think, built the first stereo system ever on the planet. It was probably 1956 or 7 when we did that. Back at that time, we had binaural sound which was sound with two speakers, but was never stereo. We built a pre-amplifier that would actually split sound into separate components and therefore we could channel it in a mixed way , which is what we know today as stereo. Link to this audio snippet in new window

Of all the things that you have done for these professional organizations, outside of your normal duties, would this be the one [conference: Perspectives on Soviet and Russian: held 3-7 July 2006 in Petrozavodsk, Russia] that you are most proud of?" I would say this is perhaps the greatest achievement; it would not have happened without me, mostly because of the politics within Russia. To get the Ukrainian camps of computing talking with the Siberian camps of computing might become confrontational perhaps. Much has to do with the philosophies of computing and to get them all together in the same place and make presentations. The quality of the people who are coming is paramount. The people are some of the most outstanding pioneers and scientists from the Former Soviet Union. It really is an accomplishment. I can't take full credit for myself because without other support within Russia, it would be impossible to do these things. Link to this audio snippet in new window