Dates

• Existence: 1928 - 1997

Biographical Note

Gerhard Mansbach (Gerry), born Kassel, Germany, December 5, 1928, immigrated November 14, 1936, to New York City during the Nazi era of Jewish persecution in Germany. Graduated Dewitt Clinton High School in New York City and University of Chicago, becoming a self-taught computer programmer in the 1960s with punch card systems for the Department of Public Works in Boston. There he produced a data-driven United States Commerce Department of Public Works report, "Cape Cod Tourist Study," measuring the mid-1960s tourism impact on Cape Cod.

Mansbach was employed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1969-1980, where he programmed guidance systems for the Apollo Missions and for General Motors autobody-stamping machine robotics for Fiat in Turin, Italy. In retirement, Mansbach created a musical brailer for the vision-impaired, a software product for fluid-inclusion studies, "Overlay Assistant," with spectrometer for Virginia Tech's Geology Department, and a biosensor monitoring software for Biological Monitoring, Incorporated (BMI) in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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