The Harvard-IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator was one of the first general-purpose, digital computers. The computer was also known as the "Mark I." Howard H. Aiken (1900-1973) was the progenitor of the Mark I. While working on his doctoral...

The Automatic Sequence Control Calculator (ASCC), also known as Mark I, was the first large American digital computer to work from a program and produce reliable results. It was designed by Howard H. Aiken, a physicist at Harvard University, and built...

The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called the Mark I by Harvard University[1], was the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA. It is considered by some to be the first universal calculator. The electromechanical...

The pencil pushers were kept busy making alterations to the record books after local teams produced big victories on Saturday. In registering its fourth straight win with a 31-9 triumph over Rhode Island, defending 1-AA national champion UMass (5-3, 5-1 Atlantic 10)...

Some major questions will be answered this afternoon on the college football scene. 1. Does Harvard have the ability to avoid the embarrassment of the past two years in its visit to Holy Cross? 2. Does Boston University have the ability to...