Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer

Apollo Guidance Computer

The Apollo Guidance Computer provided onboard computation and control for guidance, navigation, and control of the Command Module and Lunar Module spacecraft of the Apollo program...

 (AGC) at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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, 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 1-56347-185-X)

He pursued his undergraduate education at the Eastern Nazarene College

Eastern Nazarene College

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 in Quincy, Massachusetts

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, his graduate education at Boston University

Boston University

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 in Boston

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, and his doctoral degree at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Publications

• 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