University of
Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. [cbi]
Christensen, Borge M.
Borge M. Christensen
collection on General Electric (GE) computing
1960-1974
5 boxes (5
cubic feet)
Collection documents
Borge M. Christensen's career with the General Electric Company's computer and
information service business. Documents include correspondence, memoranda,
reports, photographs and slides, and other professional papers.
CBI 191
English
Administrative Information
Acquisition:
Collection was donated by Borge M. Christensen in 2007.
Access to materials:
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
Copyright:
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in
the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as
published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair
use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Preferred Citation:
Borge M. Christensen Collection on General Electric (GE) Computing
(CBI 191), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Biographical Note
Borge M. Christensen was intimately involved in the development and
promotion of General Electric's application software of the Critical Path
Method of Planning and Scheduling. Later, Christensen played a part in the
vision for a remote access computing environment serving small to medium-sized
businesses and managed the first GE Computer Time-Sharing operation in the US
and Europe. Before transferring to management of strategic planning for the
company's Information Services and Mobile Communications businesses,
Christensen planned and received corporate approval for an investment in a
computer Supercenter for the Information Services Business Division of General
Electric.
Scope and Content Note
The Borge M. Christensen Collection on General Electric (GE) Computing
documents Borge Christensen's career with the General Electric Company's
computer and information service business. Documents include correspondence,
memoranda, reports, and other professional papers.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog
of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these
headings.
Christensen, Borge M.
General
Electric Company.
Box and Folder List
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
1
1
"Computer Program Distribution Service,"
1967.
1
2
Christensen Miscellany,
1964.
1
People Accomplishing Things (rough draft),
2004.
1
Information Services Business Division Plan Book Progress
Report,
1972.
1
Extensions of the Critical Path Method Through the
Application of Integer Programming,
1963.
1
Critical Path Method Instructor’s Guidebook,
undated.
1
"Methods of Expediting Project Schedules in View of Time
and Cost,"
1962.
1
Information Services Business Division Plan
Book,
1972.
1
If You Ask Me: The General Electric Story,
1968.
1
Fundamentals of Network Planning and Analysis,
1961.
1
Systems & Technology Meeting Challenge
'75,
1974.
1
Frontiers of Progress,
1961.
1
An Introduction to Critical Path Analysis,
1961.
1
A U.S. Army Signal Corps Concept for Multi-Project
Management,
1962.
1
Precedence Networks for Project Planning and
Control,
1972.
1
Sagaen Om Den Store Datamaskine,
1970.
1
Escuela de Organizacion Industrial,
1962-1963.
1
Project Manager’s PERT/CPM Handbook,
1978.
1
Project Manager’s PERT/CPM Handbook,
1978.
1
CPM in Construction Management,
1965.
1
Introduction to Operations Research,
1957.
1
Schedule, Cost, and Profit Control with PERT,
1963.
1
PERT: A New Management Planning and Control
Technique,
1962.
1
Marketing and the Computer,
1963.
1
Readings in Linear Programming,
1958.
1
BMC Movie Collection Reel 1, Phoenix IPC
Construction
April-June 1964.
1
BMC Movie Collection Reel 2, Phoenix IPC Construction and
Information Services Business Staff Meeting,
June-July 1964, May 1965.
1
BMC Movie Collection Reel 3, Soviet Union
Visit,
September 27-October 4, 1969.
1
BMC Movie Collection Reel 4, Division General Manager
Paul Sage,
July 13-14, 1972.
2
R. & D. Projects—Can They Be Controlled?,
1962.
2
Ref #14775/11.8 Space for European Supercenter Summary of
Reviews,
1975.
2
Information Services Business Division December
Results,
1972.
2
1
Ref #2577/11.9 - NOAA Request for CPM
Literature,
1977.
2
2
Ref #2761/11.1 - T & L,
1968.
2
3
Ref #2761/11.3 - Int'l Information Service Operation
(Draft of Speech),
1970.
2
4
Ref #2761/11.6 - Executive Seminar in
December,
1973.
2
5
Ref #2761/11.7 - Executive Seminar Notes,
1974.
2
6
8.1.3 General Electric Community Service System
Project,
1962.
2
7
9.1 General Electric,
1964.
2
8
8.5.1-1 Other Network Planning Methods (1 of
2),
1958-1962.
2
9
8.5.1-1 Other Network Planning Methods (2 of
2),
1958-1962.
2
10
8.1.4 - General Electric Seminars and Speeches by BMC (1
of 2),
1961-1963.
2
11
8.1.4 - General Electric Seminars and Speeches by BMC (2
of 2),
1961-1963.
2
12
8.1.1 - General Electric Critical Path Method, et al. (1
of 2),
1963.
2
13
8.1.1 - General Electric Critical Path Method, et al. (1
of 2),
1963.
2
14
9.3 Personal,
1963-1967.
2
15
9.5.2 Other Non-CPM Speeches by BMC,
1967.
2
16
9.5.1 Other, Network Planning by BMC, Unfinished
Manuscript (1 of 2),
1964.
2
17
9.5.1 Other, Network Planning by BMC, Unfinished
Manuscript (2 of 2),
1964.
2
18
8.1 General Electric 1958-1962 (1 of 3),
2
19
8.1 General Electric 1958-1962 (2 of 3),
2
20
8.1 General Electric 1958-1962 (3 of 3),
3
MARK III,
1970-1972.
3
CBI Project Ref. #3557,
undated.
Contains color and black-and-white photographs of General Electric
installations, award presentations, office scenes, tests, and facilities. Also
contains presentation slides.
3
PERT/PEP Seminar: a program for integrated
systems,
1961.
3
History of GE Information Services 1965-1992,
3
Information Services Business Division Advanced Facilities
Project Appropriation Request 5250,
1973.
3
Information Services Business Division Appendices Advanced
Facilities Project Appropriation Request 5250,
1973.
3
Mathematical Programming,
1958.
4
COE Study Ref. #2569/9.1,
1965.
4
AMA Seminars,
1961.
4
A Guide to ALGOL Programming,
1963.
4
An Introduction to Business Information
Systems,
1962.
4
European Information Services Operation 1969 Business
Plan,
4
Information Networks Department Resource Operation Product
Line Plan,
1971.
4
The General Electric Forum Volume X Number 4 Winter
1967-68,
4
Network Models for Project Scheduling,
1962.
4
Information Services Business Division Data Network
Service Business Plan,
1974.
4
Critical-Path Planning and Scheduling,
1961.
4
Community Service System,
1962.
4
Project Planning Scheduling and Control by Network
Methods,
1961.
5
1
8.1.2-1 1958-1962 General Electric Publications by BMC (1
of 2),
5
2
8.1.2-1 1958-1962 General Electric Publications by BMC (2
of 2),
5
3
8.3 1958-1962 Personal,
5
4
8.5.1-2 1958-1962 Other, Network Planning
Methods,
5
Digital Computer Programming,
1957.
5
Field Management Meeting,
1974.
5
King of the Seven Dwarfs: General Electric’s Ambiguous
Challenge to the Computer Industry,
1996.
Includes critique by George Snively.
5
BMC Files 8.1.5 Ref. #2169,
1961-1962.
5
Information Technology: Some Critical Implications for
Decision Makers,
1972.
5
The Critical-Path Method,
1965.
5
Finding the Critical Path,
1964.
5
Applied Operational Planning,
1964.
5
The Analytical Engine,
1964.
5
The Challenge of the Computer Utility,
1966.
5
Applied Operational Planning,
1964.
5
The Information Society as Post-Industrial
Society,
1980.
5
The Computer Age And Its Potential for
Management,
1965.
5
Basic Det Enkle Programmerings Sprog,
1969.
5
Introduktion Plancode,
1976.
5
Det Ostasiatiske Kompagni,
1963.