Howard H. Aiken
Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing. He was the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I, the United States' first programmable computer.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Hoboken
- Educated at
- University of ChicagoUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonArsenal Technical High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Emory Leon Chaffee
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Fred Brooks📖 Kenneth E. Iverson📖 Gerard Salton📖 Gerrit Blaauw
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Trending topics shown first"The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself."
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Timeline
1900
Born
Birth1973
Died
Death
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