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The paper contains the reminiscences of the founding director of the Mathematical Sciences Department in IBM Research. It is interspersed with a number of anecdotes about his friend and colleague, John von Neumann. It attempts in a short space to recapitulate the history of a distinguished department of mathematics in an industrial environment in an informal and hopefully humorous manner.
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