San Jose Project

I give quotations to illustrate both sides of heated disagreements about the development of the San Jose project. One side was Washington, DC, and the other General E.F. Bullene, commanding officer on San Jose Island. WASHINGTON DC VIEWPOINT (W.A. Noyes, Jr., page 322)... 

From the project s inception until early in September 1944, military personnel rolls averaged about five hundred officers and enlisted men. As the initial phases of the tests were concluded the chemical companies were returned to the mainland. By November 194.- . there were 43 officers and 413 enlisted men attached to the San Jose Project, and a year later, with the war over, the number stood at 37 officers and 300 enlisted men. ... 

San Jose Proj Manning Tables, CWS 314.7 San Jose Project File. 

In order to insure that the testing at San Jose would not be obstructed by administrative difficulties, the Chief, CWS, activated a San Jose Project Division in his office on 27 September 1944. Under this arrangement the San Jose Project became a branch of the new division. General Bullene was made chief of the San Jose Project Division, at the same time retaining command at the project. 

In contrast to ASF activity at the depots, whose revised organizational structures were looked upon approvingly by key personnel in the CWS, the ASF decision to put Camp Sibert under the jurisdiction of the commanding general of the Fourth Service Command, was not viewed with favor by the Chief, CWS. General Somervell, nevertheless, stood by the ASF directive to make Sibert a Class I activity of the Fourth Service Command, as noted above. General Porter undoubtedly had that situation in mind when in September 1944 he set up the San Jose Project Division in his office to supervise all activities of the Panama installation. Porter was taking a precaution to insure that all responsibility for San Jose would remain under CWS control. 

Chief, Control Division Chief, Personnel Division Chief, Fiscal Division Chief, San Jose Projects Division Chief, Medical Division Chief, Industrial Division Chief, Inspection Division Chief, Technical Division Chief, Supply Division Chief, Field Requirements Division Chief, Training Division Chief, War Plans and Theaters Division... 

CAPOW (Cellular Automata Electric Power) began as a research project headed by Rudy Rucker at San Jose State University, CAPOW runs under windows 95/98/NT and contains a powerful. set of viaanalization tools for studying many different kinds of continuous-valued cellular automata. While designed initially for simulating the flow of electricity in a powergrid, it can be used to simulate a very large set of one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata. 

The POLYATOM project was not the only one of its type. Indeed, in the same issue of Rev. Mod. Phys. as Barnett s paper, R. K. Nesbet of IBM Cooporation s San Jose Laboratory describes Computer Programmes for Electronic Wave Function calculations and F. E. Harris discusses Gaussian Wavefunctions for Polyatomic Molecules . 

Equipment and Solvents. The LC/MS system applied in the aminoni-trazepam project consisted of a Model 2150 LC pump (LKB, Bromma, Sweden) and a Finnigan MAT TSQ-70 tandem mass spectrometer (San Jose, CA, USA) equipped with a Finnigan MAT thermospray interface. 

We would like to thank Professor Ph. Teyssid of the University of Lidge for his interest in this work. One of us (CEW) would like to express appreciation to CNRS, SSRL and IBM France for their financial assistance during the course of this work. We are also grateful to Drs. B. H. Schechtman (IBM San Jose) and A. Bienenstock (SSRL) for their support of this project. 

In addition to Army personnel, representatives from the following organizations were stationed at San Jose U.S. Navy, British Army, Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, and the National Defense Research Committee. General Bullene described the project as a united effort of all these participants to secure certain technical data which would be useful in winning the war. Therefore he insisted that no distinction be made between nationals or organizations and directed that men be assigned to duties for which they were best qualified. Members of the NDRC, he... 

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