DocumentCode
48458
Title
Computer Industry Pioneer: Erwin Tomash (1921-2012)
Author
Yost, Jeffrey R.
Author_Institution
Charles Babbage Institute
Volume
35
Issue
2
fYear
2013
fDate
April-June 2013
Firstpage
4
Lastpage
7
Abstract
Computer industry pioneer and visionary cofounder (with his wife Adelle Tomash) of the Charles Babbage Foundation (CBF) and the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Erwin Tomash passed away on 10 December 2012. In the late 1940s, Tomash was an engineer at Engineering Research Associates (ERA), one of two firms that launched the US computer industry. He later founded and led Dataproducts Corporation, a Fortune 500 computer peripherals and core memory firm. Erwin and Adelle Tomash´s insights and generosity in founding, supporting, and advising CBF and CBI have had a profound and continuing impact on the infrastructure for research and publication of scholarship on computer and software history.
Keywords
Biographies; Obituaries; Tomash, Erwin; CBI Archives; Charles Babbage Foundation; Charles Babbage Institute; Erwin Tomash; Tomash Fellowship; computer history research; history of computing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2013.17
Filename
6563087
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