Title: The History of Psychometric Computing

Author: Jan de Leeuw

Affiliation: Retired, not finished

Abstract:
In this talk I review the history of computing in psychometrics, using factor
analysis and multidimensional scaling as the main  families of techniques
guiding the discussion. Hardware, languages, implementations, and algorithms are
reviewed. I start this history shortly before 1940, at the birth of
Psychometrika  and the death of Karl Pearson, and end it with the irresistible
advent of the interpreted languages.