Computing firsts: a center founded in 2005, and two firsts the record does not give

ITEM 6 · NAMED GAP IN PART — GAP-84-6

The computing-center-as-institution is dug and dated; the two machine firsts are not in the open record, and the item closes with them named:The university's own sources date the center two ways — "established in 2005" in its about-record, "founded in 2006" in its research profile of Nabrzyski — and both print, unmerged; the December 2005 announcement governs the founding act. The center stands in South Bend / Notre Dame ground, outside the CDP: boundary, owned by its home build.

GAP-84-6 — the machine firsts. (a) Notre Dame's first computer — the UNIVAC-pattern fact, the machine, its year and its first work — appears in no university history, computing-center record or press account reached by this run's searches (the CRC's own published record begins with the center, not the machines that preceded it). Settler: the University of Notre Dame Archives' OIT / academic-computing records. Settlers: PHM board minutes and the district's technology-office records; the Tribune's education file. On this ground itself the first computer at institutional size is the one class of machine this build can date without guessing: none — the CDP's institutions (township offices, five PHM schools, the parishes) publish no first-machine record, and the hyperscale machines of the Microsoft EKI campus (businesses leg) are this ground's first documented computing plant, arriving 2024–26 as infrastructure, exactly as the register said. The gap is the item's honest residue, and it is named rather than papered.

Sources:

1. Notre Dame News, December 19, 2005 — the Center for Research Computing established by OIT and the Office of Research; housed in the Information Technology Center; clusters at the Union Station data center; Latimer interim director.
2. Center for Research Computing about-record (crc.nd.edu) — "Established in 2005." Notre Dame Research profile of Jarek Nabrzyski — "Founded in 2006"; six staff in 2009; the tier-two standing. Both dates printed as given.