Howard Hathaway Aiken was born on 9 March 1900 in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States. Aiken is a pioneer in comupters, and he was the principal engineer in the development of IBM'S Harvard Mark I computer.
Aiken attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and completed a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1939. He was completing his doctorate. He had joined the United States Navy at the artillery (weaponry).
His task in the armaments it makes him have to think about and make the calculations very thorough and fast will be the accuracy of the gunfire, rocket launches, or create complex building plans. Aiken found differential equations could only be solved. From this, he targets to create electro-mechanical computing tool that can help him solve the equations. This tool was referred to as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) and later renamed Harvard Mark I.
How to operate the Mark I was not as easy nowadays. Orders and questions submitted through the paper tape with holes are. The computer will answer that question with perforated paper also or with the paper which had been typed on an electric typewriter. Assisted by Grace Hopper and funding from IBM, the machine was completed in 1944. In 1947, Aiken completed the creation of next-generation computer called the Harvard Mark II.
This version continues to be developed, ranging from the Mark III is still using the mechanical components and the Harvard Mark IV that already have electronic components. Aiken was inspired to build a machine of Charles Babbage's machine differential.
In 1970, Aiken was awarded the IEEE Edison Medal as a pioneer of the development of digital computers and contribution in computer education. Howard Hathaway Aiken died on March 14, 1973, in St. Louis in Missouri, United States.
The journey from a Howard Hathaway Aiken is long, but what the many human beings did can feel. In addition, over time the technology has achieved high stay we feel now.
What is a digital computer was first made operate the same as now we can use? Much different, good shape, size, function, or capability. Computers are much smaller but with much, more complete than the first made. The computer high 2.4 meters, a length of 15.3 meters, weighs 35 tons, requiring cable along 800 kilometers, and 3 million fruit connection! Howard Hathaway Aiken is as the first person to discover this digital computer. Perhaps Aiken did not imagine that the computer that he made of the warehouse that being very concise could even put into a pocket as PDA.
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