Brief notes and history of computing in Mexico during 50 years

Abstract

A change of employment of the computer group of the INEN to the Autonomous University of Puebla (UAP) coincided with the commercialization of microcomputers. In 1976, Luis Rivera Terrazas, head of the UAP, contracted to McIntosh and a group of 12 INEN researchers to consolidate the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and form a computer research project. Thus arose the Department of Application of Microcomputers in Puebla, with the intention of building microcomputers with microprocessors such as: Motorola 6800, WD1600, Intel 8080, IMSAID, and others. This was the opportunity to request the background of the compiler REC/MARKOV to develop operating systems for microcomputers [4]. McIntosh's programming experience earned at the Martin Company in the US UU. Writing FLT and MBLISP [5] was the antecedent to start a computer project in Mexico in the IBM 709. LISP was the invention of John McCarthy on a theoretical concept like the Lambda calculus of Church and the concept of Turing of a universal machine In this way LISP was the representative of symbolic computing. In McIntosh's research in Quantum Chemistry, it was the main motive for the development of MBLISP for symbolic differentiation, the Poisson calculation or the commutator brackets and, in general, computational group-theoretical methods.Mathematical logic was one of the main axes of the courses of the Academy of Applied Mathematics at the ESFM, offered jointly with CeNaC in the master's program in computer science. The courses were held to alternate between a practical version dedicated to programming in the PDP-8 and a theoretical vision of Boolean Algebra, the theory of automata and the elements of computability the-