Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) at MIT, and advocated the use of integrated circuits for this task. He has written extensively of the development of the AGC, culminating in his 1996 book, Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer (ISBN: 156347185X) The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was the first recognizably modern embedded system. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a leading research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... An integrated circuit (IC) is a thin chip consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors, as well as passive components like resistors. ...

References

• Eldon C. Hall (2000). From the Farm to Pioneering with Digital Computers: An Autobiography.
• Eldon C. Hall (1996). Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer