Like most of the technologies Asimov describes in his fiction, Multivac's exact specifications vary among appearances. Multivac has been described as the direct ancestor of HAL 9000. Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the genre of computers for the period (1950s–1960s). He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. His first novel, Pebble in the Sky, was published in 1950. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D.
During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. He taught himself to read at the age of five. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. Asimov was born sometime between Octoand Januin Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.
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