Howard Aiken: Portrait Of A Computer Pioneer by I. Bernard Cohen

Howard Aiken: Portrait Of A Computer Pioneer

I. Bernard Cohen

329 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction computer science history informative inspiring slow-paced
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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 als...

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