The computing history you didn’t know about
In 1952, Fred Gruenberger, a supervisor in the Math Department computing lab(!), published the “Computing Manual” through University of Wisconsin Press. It was the first documents to show how computers could be used to do math and was used to teach students how to use IBM systems. This picture, from https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/QJKGRFVXRPDUL9A, is undated, but it …