Grosch's Law is an aphorism that states "economy is as the square root of the speed."
Born September 13, 1918, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Grosch was the first baby to survive incubator[2] Grosch moved to Midland, Ontario as a child, then Pembroke, then Chatham, and later Windsor, Ontario.
In 1945, he was hired by IBM to do backup calculations for the Manhattan Project working at Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University.
According to an IBM history, he had been previously employed as an optical engineer in defense industry and was eager to return to research.
Grosch served as editor of the journal Computerworld from 1973 to 1976, and he was the president of the American Rocket Society (which became the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and the Association for Computing Machinery from 1976 to 1978.