Movies
A Midcentury GE Superstar Returns to the Limelight
In Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Fabelmans, the director brings it all back home with a largely fact-based portrayal of his upbringing in New Jersey, Arizona, and Northern California. Burt Fabelman, as many GE history buffs could tell you, is based on the very real Arnold Spielberg, Steven’s father, who worked for the company in Phoenix in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he developed one of the first mainframe computers and helped pave the way for the programming of the BASIC computer language, which ushered in personal computing.
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Planes, Brains, and Automobiles: How GE Digital’s Software Can Help Manufacturers Build Better And Go Green
For most people, a half-second delay is something to shrug off. For Steve Reed and Trent Lester, a blip that small might raise a red flag in their safety-focused industry. They work at the Subaru factory in Lafayette, Indiana, the company’s only facility outside of Japan and one of the world’s most advanced automobile plants, where each year more than 6,000 people produce up to 400,000 Legacy, Outback, Impreza, and Ascent models. Reed and Lester collect thousands of data points every second, from the status of air compressors to the amount of antifreeze that’s dispensed into each vehicle.
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Computer Pioneer Arnold Spielberg Dies At 103. He Helped Build GE's First Digital Blockbuster
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE in Phoenix. His designs included a revolutionary machine that a group of computer scientists at Dartmouth College later used to write BASIC, the programming language that revolutionized personal computing.
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BASIC Necessities: How GE Helped Launch The Computing Language That Changed The World
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg: Computer Pioneer Who Helped Design GE’s First Computers Turns 100 On Monday
The name Spielberg brings to mind a movie magician whose blockbusters changed storytelling forever. But Steven Spielberg isn’t the first disruptor in the family. His father, Arnold, who turns 100 on Monday, helped mold computing — a field whose rise and dominance over all areas of life has no peer in the history of mankind.
