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Howard Aiken
KindPerson
Born1900
Died1973
StatusDead
Fieldcomputing
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Conceived the Harvard Mark I (1944), the electromechanical giant Grace Hopper learned to program on.

Designed the Harvard Mark I (1944) — the ASCC, a 51-foot relay computer built with IBM — and ran the Harvard computation lab where Hopper wrote her first programs.\n\nHe was computing's first institutional builder; the Mark series ran through Mark IV.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Aiken
  3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I