One of the most influential and prominent advocates of the new computing machines came from the world of life insurance rather than from science or engineering.  Edmund Callis Berkeley.....  (p59)

2011 - AP - Post-Industrial Engineering: Computer Science and the Organization of White-Collar Work, 1945-1975. by Mamo, Andrew Benedict - 243p

• Edmund C. Berkeley, “Electronic Machinery for Handling Information, and Its Uses in Insurance,” Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America 48 (1947): 36-52.
• 45 William P. Barber, Jr., Edward H. Wells, and Edward A. Rieder, Discussion of “Electronic Machinery for Handling Information,” Berkeley Papers, box 68.