General Motors Research Laboratories
Encyclopedia
General Motors Research Laboratories are the part of General Motors
responsible for creation of the first known operating system
(GM-NAA I/O
) in 1955 and contributed to the first mechanical heart, the Dodrill-GMR
, successfully used while performing open heart surgery.
General Motors
General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
responsible for creation of the first known operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
(GM-NAA I/O
GM-NAA I/O
The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system for the IBM 704 computer.It was created in 1956 by Robert L. Patrick of General Motors Research and Owen Mock of North American Aviation...
) in 1955 and contributed to the first mechanical heart, the Dodrill-GMR
Dodrill-GMR
The Dodrill–GMR machine was the first operational mechanical heart successfully used while performing open heart surgery. It was developed by Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill, a surgeon at Harper University Hospital in Detroit, and General Motors Research....
, successfully used while performing open heart surgery.
External links
- General Motors Research Laboratories site. Domain is one of the first .com.comThe domain name com is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations...
domains.