Victor McGee oral history interview

Victor E. McGee, Assistant Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Dartmouth College 1962-1969, Associate Professor of Statistics Emeritus at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth 1969-1999. Oral history interview documenting the development of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, as well as the generic changes in computing and programming both at Dartmouth College and in a wider context. McGee briefly describes both his and John Kemeny’s recruitment from Princeton, before describing, in greater detail, the progression of computing at Dartmouth. McGee explains the way various faculty members approached the subject of computing, the extensive student involvement in computing, and the way it was able to enrich the learning at Dartmouth. McGee also analyses whether the reduced ubiquity of programing after the advent of personal computers and programs such as Excel is a loss for the current generation of students.