Interview With Michael R. Williams

In this interview, Mike Williams discusses his college career in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he first encountered computers, and in Glasgow, Scotland. In graduate school in Glasgow, he first became interested in computing history. He spent the rest of his professional career back in Calgary in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary from which he retired many years later. In parallel with his academic career, Mike was involved in a variety of computing history activities with other institutions and with other computing historians. He also served in many positions with the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE, including as 2007 President of the Computer Society.