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Howard Aiken

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Name: Howard Aiken
Birth Date: March 8, 1900
Death Date: March 14, 1973
Place of Birth: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: computer scientist, inventor

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Biography of Howard Aiken
1,259 words, approx. 4 pages
A noted physicist and Harvard professor, Howard Aiken designed and built the Mark I calculator in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The first large-scale digital calculator, the Mark I provided the impetus for larger and more advanced computing machines....
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Biography of Howard Aiken
1,250 words, approx. 4 pages
A noted physicist and Harvard professor, Howard Aiken (1900-1973) designed and built the Mark I calculator in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The first large-scale digital calculator, the Mark I provided the impetus for larger and more advanced...
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Biography of Howard H. Aiken
344 words, approx. 1 pages
Aiken designed and built the Automatic Sequence Control Calculator (ASCC), the first digital computer in the United States to work from a program and produce reliable results. The machine was also called Mark I. Howard Aiken was born in Hoboken, New...


Quotations
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Howard Aiken Quotes
76 words, approx. 1 pages
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas....


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Howard Hathaway Aiken Summary
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1900-1973 American mathematician who invented the first automatic calculator. Howard Hathaway Aiken was born at the turn of the century in Hoboken, New Jersey. He studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, then received his doctorate...
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Howard Aiken Information
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Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey– March 14 1973, St. Louis, Missouri) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and...


News and Journals
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Business History
Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer.(Review) (book review)
07/01/2000: 784 words, approx. 3 pages
I. BERNARD COHEN, Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1999. Pp.xviii + 329; photos. H/back. ISBN 0 262 03262 7, [pounds]24.50). There are few full-scale studies of computer technologists, especially those from the early digital...
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Dayton Daily News
Angel Aiken
08/28/2004: 1,744 words, approx. 6 pages
Nice guy finishes first in the hearts in the hearts of his fans So, with American Idol star Clay Aiken arriving in town for his first Dayton-area show, we thought it would be fun to ask the Claymates just what it is they...
 


 

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