James (Jim) Wynne, Full Interview
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: James Wynne
Date: Time Period: 1962 - 2015; 2015-06-07; Interview recorded: June 7, 2015
Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:17:24
Creator: James Wynne
Identifier: aql:20440 qmp-jw-full-000004
Description: Jim Wynne was born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, NY. After graduating from Harvard University, he has worked as a physicist for IBM since 1969, first in Zurich, Switzerland and now in New York. He visited the World's Fair in 1965 with his wife. His memories and reflections on the Fair focus on the technological innovations, and the connections to later technological developments. He discusses the IBM Pavilion and the New York Hall of Science in particular detail. He reflected on the Belgian Waffles.
Creator :
James Wynne
Date :
Time Period: 1962 - 2015; 2015-06-07; Interview recorded: June 7, 2015
Summary/Description :
Jim Wynne was born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, NY. After graduating from Harvard University, he has worked as a physicist for IBM since 1969, first in Zurich, Switzerland and now in New York. He visited the World's Fair in 1965 with his wife. His memories and reflections on the Fair focus on the technological innovations, and the connections to later technological developments. He discusses the IBM Pavilion and the New York Hall of Science in particular detail. He reflected on the Belgian Waffles.
Subject :
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Hall of Science (New York, N.Y.); Automatic speech recognition; Physicists; International Business Machines Corporation; AT&T
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Locations discussed: Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, Queens, NY Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.) Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:17:24
Identifier :
aql:20440 qmp-jw-full-000004
Subject:
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Hall of Science (New York, N.Y.); Automatic speech recognition; Physicists; International Business Machines Corporation; AT&T
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Hall of Science (New York, N.Y.); Automatic speech recognition; Physicists; International Business Machines Corporation; AT&T
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