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Howard Hathaway Aiken (Engineering)
Birthday: 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Howard Aiken studied engineering at the University of
Wisconsin and received his doctorate from Harvard. He began his research into
computer technology in the 1930s when the field was in its infancy. Aiken became
world famous as a result of his work for the U.S. Navy in the development of the
first Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator—the Harvard Mark I—a
mechanical device weighing more than 30 tonnes. The Mark II, completed in 1947,
and his second ground-breaking achievement, was a fully electronic—but
still huge—computing machine.
"If Babbage had lived seventy-five years later I would have
been out of a job." (1940)
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