Herbert Grosch

Name: Herbert Reuben Grosch

Born: September 13, 1918, in Canada

Death: January 18, 2010 (Age: 92)

Computer-related contributions

• Computer scientist, perhaps best known for Grosch's law, which he formulated in 1950.
• In 1945, he was hired by IBM to do backup calculations for the Manhattan Project.
• In 1951, he went on to work on project Whirlwind at MIT, and on other early computer projects at General Electric.
• Grosch is respected for discovering and describing the relationship between speed and cost of computers.

Significant publications

• Elements and Ephemeris of Delaporte Object (1936).
• Integration Orbit and Mean Elements of Jupiter's Eighth Satellite (1942).
• Ray Tracing with the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (1949).
• A New Level of Instruction in Celestial Mechanics (1958).

Honors and awards

• Association for Computing Machinery Fellows Award (1995).