Editing System Development Corporation (section)

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| name   = System Development Corporation
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| type   = [[Subsidiary]]
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| foundation     = {{start date and age|1955}}
| location       = [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], [[California]]
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| industry       = [[Aerospace]]
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| parent         = [[Unisys]]
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'''System Development Corporation''' (SDC) was a [[computer software]] company based in [[Santa Monica, California]]. Initially created as a division of the [[RAND Corporation]] in December 1955 (under the name System Development Division) and established as an independent organization in October 1956, it was a very influential organization that trained a large portion of the emerging programmer workforce in the United States in the late 1950s, referred to by some as "a university for programmers."<ref>See Campbell-Kelly, 2003, pp.36-41.</ref>