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John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication , microwave technology, computer music , psychoacoustics , and science fiction . [1]
2 de abr. de 2024 · John Robinson Pierce (born March 27, 1910, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.—died April 2, 2002, Sunnyvale, California) was an American communications engineer, scientist, and father of the communications satellite. Pierce attended the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, receiving his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1936.
15 de mar. de 1976 · science. Almost All About Waves. by John R. Pierce. Paperback. $8.95. Paperback. ISBN: 9780262660273. Pub date: March 15, 1976. Publisher: The MIT Press. 213 pp., MIT Press Bookstore Penguin Random House Amazon Barnes and Noble Bookshop.org Indiebound Indigo Books a Million. Hardcover. Description.
A 1976 interview with former Bell Labs scientist John R. Pierce Music from Mathematics (1962) es un hito en la historia de la composición electrónica: reúne melodías programadas por los técnicos de Bell Telephone Laboratories en el novedoso IBM 7090, el primer ordenador comercial de IBM.
John R. Pierce's knowledge extended far beyond telecommunica-tion science and technology and included policy, the human dimension, literature, and the arts. He was a prolific writer, not only of science fiction and technical papers, but also of books and publications popu-larizing real science and technology. His witty comments were collected
John Robinson Pierce (27 March 1910 – 2 April 2002), was an American engineer and author. He worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction.
A comprehensive interview with John R. Pierce, the father of the communications satellite, by Harriett Lyle in 1979. He recalls his undergraduate and graduate education at Caltech, his research on radar and tubes, his involvement in the development of Echo and Telstar, his interest in science fiction and music, and his later career at Caltech and Stanford.
