Hail and Farewell 4341 on the St. Paul campus; and finally a CRAY-1 supercomputer at ucc's Lauderdale facility. One of the early achievements of his administration was the establishment of state-wide higher education time-sharing. What began as a 32-port CDC 6400 KRONOS system in 1971 with an innovative single-port charge developed jointly with Control Data Corporation has grown to a CYBER 17 4 with 325 ports. In addition, the rapid success of this idea led the State Legislature to fund a similar system, the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), in 1973 for the Dr. Peter Patton entire state of Minnesota­ Dr. Frank Verbrugge vocational, secondary, and Some people contend that qualified elementary schools-thus making microcomputers in instructional labs. people can be placed at random in Minnesota a leader in educational In 1981, Dr. Verbrugge and an any management job and the computing. advisory committee approved the organization will continue to Under Dr. Verbrugge's aegis, the purchase of the CRAY-1, the first prosper and grow. But I believe that University's other computing centers Class VI supercomputer at a United quality people possess special changed from batch oriented to States university. When his individual abilities; they are not just interactive systems: St. Paul from a retirement date was postponed from pegs to be moved around on a batch-driven IBM 360/30 used for June 30 to December 31, 1983 to board. dairy herd improvement to an IBM allow the University's central Dr. Frank Verbrugge, director of 4341 with a comprehensive administration to continue to plan University Computer Services (UCS), Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and the future of computing at the and Dr. Peter C. Patton, director of multi-terminals; Duluth from a CDC University, he worked on a joint the University Computer Center 3200 to its current CYBER 1 70-815; venture with the Institute of (ucc), have been guiding lights of Health Sciences from a CDC 3200 Technology and Control Data to the University Computer Center to a data base intensive CYBER 170- obtain a CYBER 1 70-825 CAD/CAM during the past decade. Both will 825; Morris from remote computing instructional system that the leave the University at the end of to a well integrated VAX-11 /750. University's Mechanical Engineering this month. During these years, our main Department will use to maintain its academic center switched to top academic rank. Dr. Frank Verbrugge interactive access when we installed Dr. Frank Verbrugge is a man During Dr. Verbrugge's years at the CYBER 74 in 1974. Data base who encouraged innovation and ucs, academic computing systems at and business data products were who worked well with all University the University changed from remote added when a dual-processor CYBER departments and with the State job entry on a CDC 6600 at ucc to 172 was installed in 1978. In the Legislature. His legacy should prove multiple interactive CYBER and VAX past five years Dr. Verbrugge a useful guide to the person who systems at ucc, the co-ordinate encouraged the growth of replaces him. campuses, and Health Sciences; microprocessor systems by soliciting hundreds of microcomputers; an IBM funds for TERAKs and Apple December 1983 129 Dr. Peter C. Patton students in all these areas. From during all these years. His ability to ucc has been fortunate to have had 1977 to 1981 he was Associate comprehend and describe complex two long-term directors in its 28 Director and Director of the Center computer and philosophical ideas years of existence. For 14 years for Ancient Studies and actively and systems, and his excellence as (1955-1969), Dr. Marvin Stein, with supported humanities computing. a raconteur of classical and biblical credentials in both academics and This effort brought ucc a more literature, made listening to him an industry, led ucc from tabulating explicit role in humanities edifying experience. His encourage­ equipment to the CDC 6600, the computing and Dr. Patton has ment allowed us, his co-workers, to supercomputer of the 1960s. That continued to expand this role as a develop new abilities and systems system and the slightly faster CYBER faculty member of the Classical in a fairly autonomous manner. 74 that replaced it in 1974 were Civilization program for the past I remember when the only bid on the backbone of our batch three years. He also found time to our proposal for an innovative, low computing until the CRAY-1 was co-author or edit three books: Data cost batch computing system was installed two years ago. Structures and Computer from Cray Research. I was not In 1970, in response to a request Architecture: Design Issues at the completely convinced we should from the Governor of Minnesota, a Hardware/Software Interface (1976), make such a purchase without his study entitled "Computers and Computing in the Humanities backing. He calmly and reasonably Information Systems in Minnesota (1981 ), and Computer System stated that he approved this 1970-1980" reported on the state's Requirements (1982). As ucc addition, and when budgetary computing needs. One of its director, he implemented most of problems during the 1982 recession authors, Dr. Peter C. Patton, was the proposals described in the 1970 threatened ucc, he worked hard to selected to replace Dr. Richard P. Governor's study. Wider computer retain ucc staff by expanding Halverson, ucc's interim director use in all the University colleges, outside use of the CRAY-1. from 1969 to 1971. Before his interactive research, and It was natural that such a talented selection as director, Dr. Patton instructional access to ucc individual would come to the earned a Ph. D. in Aerospace computers were highlights of his attention of Admiral Bobby Inman Engineering at the Technical directorship. as he established the "fifth University of Stuttgart and had held His recent research interests generation" program at the positions at the Wichita Division of include application generators, Microelectronics and Computer the Boeing Company, the Midwest expert programs, and knowledge Technology Corporation (MCC) in Research Institute of Kansas City, based systems. He consulted for Austin, Texas. Thus it is with regret and UNIVAC. His comprehensive Analysts International in the early that I announce that Peter C. Patton knowledge of computer concepts design phases of their CORVET will leave ucc to help move the led to his position as General product and is responsible for United States into a leadership Manager of Analysts International, a University of Minnesota research position in computing. His ability to well known consulting group, and application products for IBM. He is develop programs that range from to the publication of the computer currently working on a new book computer lexicons for Sumerian study for the State of Minnesota. entitled Application Generators: The Emesal to analytic tools for the Dr. Patton has also been an New Software Technology for the New Testament, and from data Associate Professor and member of 1980s. structures to application generators the graduate faculty in Aerospace The history of a director's service will be missed at the University of Engineering, Mechanics, Computer also evokes personal responses. I Minnesota. Science, and Ancient Studies; he have worked directly for and have (Lawrence A. Liddiard) has supervised M.S. and Ph. D. been associated with Peter Patton Change Comes to Computing at the University On Wednesday, November 9, Vice all he had done for computing at ucc), the Administrative Data President for Academic Affairs Ken the University. He reiterated the Processing Department, and the Keller, University Computer Services University's continued commitment proposed Department of Director Frank Verbrugge, University to all types of computing and Telecommunications. Computer Center Director Peter announced the creation of a new It was also announced at the Patton, and Special Assistant to the position: Associate/ Assistant Vice meeting that Dr. Patton, ucc's Vice President for Academic Affairs President for Information Processing. current director, has accepted a Peter Roll addressed the University The person hired for this position position with the Microelectronics Computer Center staff on "The will report jointly to Vice President and Computer Technology Future of Computing at the Keller and to David Lilly, Vice Corporation (MCC), a research University of Minnesota." President for Finance and consortium based in Austin, Texas. Vice President Keller expressed Operations. She or he would Dr. Patton's resignation is effective his gratitude to Dr. Verbrugge, who assume responsibility for University December 31 . retires at the end of this month, for Computing Services (which includes 130 December 1983 Looking back at '83 Every year we at ucc have saturation on the MERITSS new appendices-"X" illustrating improved our computing services instructional computing system with other (XOTHER) arithmetics and "Z" and have initiated new areas of the March memory expansion and illustrating the interval arithmetic service. We recognize the close central processor upgrade from a library (INTLIB)-was published. The analogy between the I ife cycle of a 196K CYBER 172 to a 262K CYBER latest version of M77 showed good nation and that of a computing 174 that allows 40 percent more conformance with the 1978 FORTRAN center: a growth period, followed users. During October 1983, this standard by doing well on the by a long and stable (for expanded system peaked at 248 FORTRAN Compiler Validation suite computing) period, and then a simultaneous users and had 150,286 of programs. decline and disappearance. If we do user sessions for 60,506 connect All three operating systems not continually improve our systems hours. These are new monthly changed in 1983: the VAX/VMS went and services, we would be in the records, respectively 15 percent, 31 from Version 2.5 to Version 3.3, same condition as several other percent, and 33 percent above the the CYBERs from NOS Release 4 to university computer centers that are totals for October 1982.