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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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