The Cuthbert C. Hurd papers consist of materials related to the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), primarily from 1949 through 1962, and Hurd's role in steering the company to develop its first electronic stored program computers during that time. The collection includes IBM reports and memoranda, personal correspondence, research on computing history, articles from publications, and testimony transcripts and legal documents from the IBM anti-trust case: United States v. International Business Machines Corp. (1979).

Cuthbert C. Hurd was born April 5, 1911, in Estherville, Iowa. He received his BA in mathematics from Drake University in 1932, his MS in mathematics from Iowa State College in 1934, and his PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1936.

4.84 Linear feet 3 record cartons and 1 oversize box

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