Dr. Cuthbert C. Hurd, director of data processing machines for IBM, Dean Neil Jacoby of the UCLA Graduate School of Business Administration, and UCLA Chancellor Raymond B. Allen looking at a model of the IBM 705 computer for the Western Data Processing Center, established at UCLA in 1956.
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Interior of the Center is shown above.
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Exterior of the Center is shown above. The building became part of the new Graduate School of Business Administration building (now the Luskin School).
Photo Caption: The $5,000,000 Western Data Processing Center was dedicated today at the University of California at Los Angeles as the world's first university computer center specializing in complicated business management problems. Forty-five western colleges and universities are using the Center, whose heart is the 709, most powerful commercial electronic computer manufactured by IBM. Use of the computer is being given to UCLA without charge by IBM. Participation in the dedication ceremonies were Thomas J. Watson, Jr., president of IBM, and Donald H. McLaughlin, chairman of the University of California Board of Regents. The Center building, whose eastern entrance is shown, will be connected with the University's planned Graduate School of Business Administration.
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