Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer / I. Bernard Cohen.
1999
QA76.2.A35 C65 1999eb
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Title
Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer / I. Bernard Cohen.
ISBN
9780262270533 (electronic bk.)
0262270536 (electronic bk.)
0585077991 (electronic bk.)
9780585077994 (electronic bk.)
9780262032629
0262032627
0262032627 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262270536 (electronic bk.)
0585077991 (electronic bk.)
9780585077994 (electronic bk.)
9780262032629
0262032627
0262032627 (hc ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1999.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
QA76.2.A35 C65 1999eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44962601
Summary
"Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973) was a major figure of the early digital era. He is best known for his first machine, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I, conceived in 1937 and put into operation in 1944. But he also made significant contributions to the development of applications for the new machines and to the creation of a university curriculum for computer science." "This biography of Aiken, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard, offers a clear and often entertaining introduction to Aiken and his times."--Jacket
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The Names "ASCC" and "Mark I"
Introduction to a Pioneer
Early Life and Education
A Harvard Graduate Student
First Steps Toward a New Type of Calculating Machine
An Unsuccessful Attempt to Get the Machine Built
Seeking Support from IBM
The Proposal for an Automatic Calculating Machine
Aiken's Background in Computing and Knowledge of Babbage's Machines
Planning and Beginning the Construction of the Machine
How to Perform Multiplication and Division by Machine
Construction of the Machine
Installing the ASCC/Mark I in Cambridge and Transferring It to the Navy
Aiken at the Naval Mine Warfare School
The Dedication
The Aftermath
Some Features of Mark I
Programming and Staffing, Wartime Operation, and the Implosion Computations
The Mystery of the Number 23
Tables of Bessel Functions
Aiken's Harvard Program in Computer Science
Later Relations between Aiken and IBM
Aiken at Harvard, 1945-1961
Life in the Comp Lab
Retirement from Harvard
Businessman and Consultant
A Summing Up
Appendixes
The Harvard News Release
Aiken's Talk at the Dedication
Aiken's Memorandum Describing the Harvard Computation Laboratory
The Stored Program and the Binary Number System
Aiken's Three Later Machines
How Many Computers Are Needed?
The NSF Computer Tree
Who Invented the Computer? Was Mark I a Computer?
The Harvard Computation Laboratory during the 1950s.
Introduction to a Pioneer
Early Life and Education
A Harvard Graduate Student
First Steps Toward a New Type of Calculating Machine
An Unsuccessful Attempt to Get the Machine Built
Seeking Support from IBM
The Proposal for an Automatic Calculating Machine
Aiken's Background in Computing and Knowledge of Babbage's Machines
Planning and Beginning the Construction of the Machine
How to Perform Multiplication and Division by Machine
Construction of the Machine
Installing the ASCC/Mark I in Cambridge and Transferring It to the Navy
Aiken at the Naval Mine Warfare School
The Dedication
The Aftermath
Some Features of Mark I
Programming and Staffing, Wartime Operation, and the Implosion Computations
The Mystery of the Number 23
Tables of Bessel Functions
Aiken's Harvard Program in Computer Science
Later Relations between Aiken and IBM
Aiken at Harvard, 1945-1961
Life in the Comp Lab
Retirement from Harvard
Businessman and Consultant
A Summing Up
Appendixes
The Harvard News Release
Aiken's Talk at the Dedication
Aiken's Memorandum Describing the Harvard Computation Laboratory
The Stored Program and the Binary Number System
Aiken's Three Later Machines
How Many Computers Are Needed?
The NSF Computer Tree
Who Invented the Computer? Was Mark I a Computer?
The Harvard Computation Laboratory during the 1950s.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
History of computing.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914- Howard Aiken. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1999
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