. . . . . "History" . . . . "Oral history interview with Alexandra I. Forsythe" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Oral histories" . . . . . "Forsythe discusses the career of her husband, George E. Forsythe, from the time of his Ph.D. in 1941. He studied meteorology at UCLA in preparation for a military commission. After the war he taught meteorology at UCLA, where he became involved with the National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). In 1957, when the National Bureau of Standards closed its operation at UCLA, George accepted a position at Stanford University to establish its program in computer science." . . . . . . .