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Howard aiken

Howard aiken. Presentation by Adam Wright. Howard Hathaway Aiken. Born March 8, 1990 in Hoboken, New Jersey Grew up in Indianapolis , Indiana Received a Bachelor’s degree after attending the University of Wisconsin. 1939-Ph.D from Harvard

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Howard aiken

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  1. Howard aiken Presentation by Adam Wright

  2. Howard Hathaway Aiken • Born March 8, 1990 in Hoboken, New Jersey • Grew up in Indianapolis , Indiana • Received a Bachelor’s degree after attending the University of Wisconsin. • 1939-Ph.D from Harvard • Thinks of a machine to do tedious calculations while working on a doctoral thesis in physics. • Aiken got IBM to fund his project

  3. Aiken’s Big Project • His idea was to create an electromachanic machine • Aiken was to be head of the IBM team • IBM parts were to be used • The project took seven years • Grace Murray Cooper was assigned to work with Aiken on the project

  4. Project Results • The official name would be the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator • Most would call it the Mark 1 • Designed to create tables • Proved machines of the type could be of practical use

  5. Mark 1 Statistics • 8 feet high • 51 feet long • 2 feet wide • Five tons • 760,000 parts • 2,200 counter wheels • 3,300 relay components • 530 miles of wire

  6. Mark 1 in History • The Mark 1 was used to aid in development of the atomic bomb

  7. The Mark 2 • The Navy asked Aiken to develop what would become the Mark 2 ,for the Naval Proving Ground • The Mark 2 would employ an electrical memory, finished in 1947 • Concept of “constants”-fixed values referenced by the program while the machine was still running

  8. The Mark 3 • Ran on a stored program • Incorporated address registers and indirect addressing • Greater storage capacity • Unreliable, components were subject to heat changes when turned on and off

  9. The Mark 4 • Basically the same as the Mark 3 • Magnetic core memory-storing 200 registers • Made the computer faster

  10. Aiken’s quotes • “ Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” • If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.”

  11. Aiken’s other accomplishments • He started the first computer science academic program

  12. Aiken’s Death • Howard Aiken died on March 14, 1973

  13. Sources http://www.thocp.net/biographies/aiken_howard.html http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/04.09/HowardAikenMaki.html http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/aiken.html http://thinkexist.com/quotes/howard_aiken/ http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761589179/howard_aiken.html http://www.athsalumni.org/howardaiken.htm

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