Legacy of Metropolis continues through new materials donated to classified library collections

Technical Report · Mon Oct 11 04:00:00 EDT 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1825399· OSTI ID:1825399

Lewis, Nicholas Dale ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

“From the very beginning of the Los Alamos project, it was inevitable that the Laboratory would suffer total immersion in computing,” said Nicholas Constantine Metropolis in 1976, reflecting his characteristic humor. Metropolis had succinctly summarized the prominent place of computing in Los Alamos’s mission and history. Metropolis himself played no small role in that “total immersion,” exemplified by the Lab’s supercomputing center, a postdoctoral fellowship, and the world-famous algorithm that carry his name. So does a collection of legacy materials in the National Security Research Center (NSRC). The NSRC, the Lab’s classified library, which also houses unclassified artifacts, recently received a new addition to the Metropolis Collections. This donation, 22 years after his death on October 17, 1999, provides tangible evidence of Metropolis’s continuing legacy at Los Alamos.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: 89233218CNA000001
• OSTI ID: 1825399
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-21-30064
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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