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Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) 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 .
A project conceived by Harvard University’s Dr. Howard Aiken, the Mark I was built by IBM engineers in Endicott, N.Y. A steel frame 51 feet long and 8 feet high held the calculator, which consisted of an interlocking panel of small gears, counters, switches and control circuits, all only a few inches in depth.
Aiken boasted that the Mark III was the fastest electronic computer in the world. The Mark III used nine magnetic drums (one of the first computers to do so). One drum could contain 4,000 instructions and has an access time of 4,400 microseconds; thus it was a stored-program computer. The arithmetic unit could access two other drums – one ...
A woman was killed and her husband was charged with murder, the Aiken Department of Public Safety said Wednesday.. Ruth Ann Whitaker, a 70-year-old Aiken resident, was fatally shot Tuesday, the ...
Christion Alexander Reeves, a 22-year-old Aiken resident, is wanted on charges of murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, the sheriff’s office said Tuesday in a news release.
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Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973) M.A. 1937; PhD 1939 Computer scientist; designer of the Harvard Mark I [92] James Gilbert Baker (1914–2005) PhD 1942 Astronomer, optician [93] John Bartlett (1784–1849) College 1805 Minister, founder of Massachusetts General Hospital [94] Manjul Bhargava (born 1974) College 1996 Mathematician, Fields Medal winner