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Bob was teaching an undergraduate course in chemistry the semester he and Rick Smalley were awarded the Nobel Prize
[QUOTE(s):]Pressures and GoalsThere were two major purposes in designing the Rice machine. The first was to provide a platform on which members of the Rice community could do research that would have been impossibly time-consuming without access to a computer. This was, in fact, the major reason that the project was started: Zevi Salsburg wanted a machine as powerful as Los Alamos's MANIAC II to simulate fluid flow. He did not, however, have any desire to move to Los Alamos, and therefore needed a computer to be built at Rice.The other goal of the machine was to do research into how computers should be built. In the years following John von Neumann's death, the Atomic Energy Commission became quite interested in funding computer research: Salsburg's request came at a time when the AEC's goals could be better met by funding the development of a new system than by offering to build a copy of MANIAC II or to buy a stock IBM computer.ChronologyTowards the end of 1956, Zevi Salsburg, John Kilpatrick, and Larry Biedenharn, all Rice professors, decided they needed a computer "like the one at Los Alamos." [...] The Rice Computer was designed not only to do research into how best to build computers, but to get work done for faculty members as well. [...] Salsburg investigated the packing of spheres in N-dimensional space to represent fluid flow. [...]
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