Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing. He was the original conceptual designer behind...
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Harvard Mark II (redirect from Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator)
Mark II, also known as the Aiken Relay Calculator, was an electromechanical computer built under the direction of Howard Aiken at Harvard University, completed...
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Allston, Massachusetts. The original concept was presented to IBM by Howard Aiken in November 1937. After a feasibility study by IBM engineers, the company...
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Charles Edward Howard Aiken (7 September 1850 – 15 January 1936) was an American naturalist and ornithologist who was among the early ornithologists who...
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academic Charles Avery Aiken (1872–1965), American painter Charles Edward Howard Aiken (1850–1936), American ornithologist Clay Aiken (born 1978), American...
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Harvard Mark III (redirect from Aiken Dahlgren Electronic Calculator)
electromechanical. It was built at Harvard University under the supervision of Howard Aiken for use at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. The Mark III...
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from the Jacquard loom" making it infinitely programmable. In 1937, Howard Aiken convinced IBM to design and build the ASCC/Mark I, the first machine...
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automatically. In 1937, one hundred years after Babbage's impossible dream, Howard Aiken convinced IBM, which was making all kinds of punched card equipment and...
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S2CID 17597243. Cohen, I. Bernard (2000). "8 - Aiken's Background in Computing and Knowledge of Babbage's Machines". Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. Cambridge:...
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stored-program computer built by Harvard University under the supervision of Howard Aiken for the United States Air Force. The computer was finished being built...
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(ISBN 0-393-95902-3) 1999 – Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) (ISBN 0-262-03262-7) 1999 – Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer...
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Clayton Holmes Aiken (né Grissom; born November 30, 1978) is an American singer, television personality, actor and political activist. Aiken finished second...
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Maurice d'Ocagne (1922), Louis Couffignal (1933), Vannevar Bush (1936), Howard Aiken (1937). However: … the emphasis is on programming a fixed iterable sequence...
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built by George Stibitz at Bell Laboratories and Harvard University's Howard Aiken, who engineered the MARK I. Also in 1945, mathematician John von Neumann—working...
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Howard Aiken Ijams (April 10, 1873 – March 7, 1923) was a physician. He was the first quarterback in the history of the Tennessee Volunteers football team...
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bios of Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Claude Shannon, Howard Aiken, etc. This article incorporates public domain material from Paul E....
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registers and 100 constants. It was later expanded to double the memory. Howard Aiken stated in reference to BARK "This is the first computer I have seen outside...
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developed by Howard Hathaway Aiken and is still used today in digital clocks, pocket calculators and similar devices[citation needed]. The Aiken code differs...
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Applied Physics, working with Howard Aiken and Wassily Leontief. Kenneth Iverson has recalled graduate study under Aiken as "like an apprenticeship" in...
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Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Cohen, Bernard (2000). "Howard Aiken, Portrait of a computer pioneer". Physics Today. 53 (3). Cambridge, Massachusetts:...
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for work on the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. 1944 – Howard Aiken '37 (PhD) developed the Mark I series of computers, the first large-scale...
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Liam Pádraic Aiken (born January 7, 1990) is an American actor. He has starred in films such as Stepmom (1998), Road to Perdition (2002), and Good Boy...
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Barbara Marion; and one son, Howard Russell. In 1967 Aiken married his longtime administrative assistant, Lola Pierotti. Lola Aiken remained active in Republican...
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Robot Archived 2007-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, University of Sheffield Howard R. Turner (1997), Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction...
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mathematics (computer science) from Harvard University in 1956, supervised by Howard Aiken. Brooks served as the graduate teaching assistant for Ken Iverson at...
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Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, and Mark IV, early computers designed by Howard Aiken at Harvard University from 1937 to 1952 Navigation system on BMW cars...
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1948. After graduation, he worked at Harvard with Howard Aiken on the design of the Mark IV, Aiken's first fully electronic computer. Wang coinvented the...
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to the field of computer science, including Edison Medal recipient Howard H. Aiken, who envisioned the conceptual design behind IBM's Harvard Mark I,...
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and a Ph.D. from Harvard in applied mathematics in 1958, the last of Howard Aiken's doctoral students, and taught there until 1965, when he joined Cornell...
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Tom's Cabin. Aiken was a writer of dime novels before he turned to theatre. He became an actor in the troupe of his cousin George C. Howard. In 1852, shortly...
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