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The Resource Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer, I. Bernard Cohen, (eBook:)
Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer, I. Bernard Cohen, (eBook:)
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The item Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer, I. Bernard Cohen, (eBook:) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer, I. Bernard Cohen, (eBook:) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- 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."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xx, 329 p.)
- Note
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Contents
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- 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 Names "ASCC" and "Mark I"
- 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
- Introduction to a Pioneer
- 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
- 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
- Label
- Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer
- Title
- Howard Aiken
- Title remainder
- portrait of a computer pioneer
- Statement of responsibility
- I. Bernard Cohen
- Language
- eng
- 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."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Characteristic
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1914-2003
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cohen, I. Bernard
- Dewey number
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- 004/.092
- B
- Series statement
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- eBooks from EBSCOhost
- History of computing
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Aiken, Howard H.
- Computer engineers
- Computers
- Aiken, Howard
- Mark I (Calculator)
- Computer scientists
- Electronic books
- Label
- Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer, I. Bernard Cohen, (eBook:)
- Note
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
-
- 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 Names "ASCC" and "Mark I"
- 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
- Introduction to a Pioneer
- 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
- 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
- Control code
- tsl-ebsco14648
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xx, 329 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)44962601
- Label
- Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer, I. Bernard Cohen, (eBook:)
- Note
-
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
-
- 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 Names "ASCC" and "Mark I"
- 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
- Introduction to a Pioneer
- 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
- 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
- Control code
- tsl-ebsco14648
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xx, 329 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)44962601
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