Larry Gottschalk worked for Control Data for 29 years at various Twin Cities Locations.   He participated in the creation and running of Control Data’s CYBERNET, which in today’s terminology would have been called a primitive form of Cloud.   Users were able to submit jobs from anywhere, and the network would route the work to available servers.   (In those days, “servers” were called “hosts”, or just “mainframes”.)    Uses were charged either a flat fee for guaranteed bandwidth, or were charged for usage.  Very similar to today’s idea of Cloud??!!

After leaving Control Data in 2002, Larry has been on the faculty at Metropolitan State University, where he continues now.   He is an assistant professor of IT in the Computer and Information Sciences department.   He teaches hardware, Java, J2EE, data base, software engineering, mulit-media, UML/UP, the senior capstone course, as well as two graduate courses in advanced data base and HCI (human computer interface).