EDSAC: Recollections on early days in the Cambridge Computing Laboratory

Issue title: Computational Econometrics: Its Impact on the Development of Quantitative Economics

Guest editors: Charles G. Renfro

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Slater, Lucy Joan^a

Affiliations: [a] Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwich Avenne, Combridge CB3 9DE, UK. E-mail: LJSWardle@aol.com | 601 West 113th Street, #12G, New York, NY 10025, USA. E-mail: cgrenfro@modler.com

Abstract: Economists were among the earliest users of the programmable electronic computer, when it was made available for general use in the early 1950s. The first operating programmable electronic computer was the EDSAC, developed at Cambridge University. This memoir describes the context of the development of the first econometric software package, a regression program developed by the author, working together with M.J. Farrell, as well as a number of other aspects of the early computing environment at the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge.

DOI: 10.3233/JEM-2004-0214

Journal: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, vol. 29, no. 1-3, pp. 119-122, 2004