Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer Book

Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer, 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 s, Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer

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Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer
Written by author I. Bernard Cohen
Published by MIT Press, August 2000
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 s
Biography of Howard Aiken, a major figure of the early digital era, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard. Harvard Magazine, May/June 1999 - Harry R. Lewis The biography, and its companion, Makin

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Preface
Acknowledgments
The Names "ASCC" and "Mark I"
1 Introduction to a Pioneer 1
2 Early Life and Education 9
3 A Harvard Graduate Student 21
4 First Steps Toward a New Type of Calculating Machine 33
5 An Unsuccessful Attempt to Get the Machine Built 39
6 Seeking Support from IBM 45
7 The Proposal for an Automatic Calculating Machine 53
8 Aiken's Background in Computing and Knowledge of Babbage's Machines 61
9 Planning and Beginning the Construction of the Machine 73
10 How to Perform Multiplication and Division by Machine 87
11 Construction of the Machine 95
12 Installing the ASCC/Mark I in Cambridge and Transferring It to the Navy 109
13 Aiken at the Naval Mine Warfare School 115
14 The Dedication 121
15 The Aftermath 131
16 Some Features of Mark I 147
17 Programming and Staffing, Wartime Operation, and the Implosion Computations 159
18 The Mystery of the Number 23 169
19 Tables of Bessel Functions 177
20 Aiken's Harvard Program in Computer Science 185
21 Later Relations between Aiken and IBM 197
22 Aiken at Harvard, 1945-1961 201
23 Life in the Comp Lab 215
24 Retirement from Harvard 227
25 Businessman and Consultant 231
26 A Summing Up 237
App. A The Harvard News Release 249
App. B Aiken's Talk at the Dedication 253
App. C Aiken's Memorandum Describing the Harvard Computation Laboratory 263
App. D The Stored Program and the Binary Number System 269
App. E Aiken's Three Later Machines 275
App. F How Many Computers Are Needed? 283
App. G The NSF Computer Tree 295
App. H Who Invented the Computer? Was Mark I a Computer? 297
App. I The Harvard Computation Laboratory during the 1950s 305
Sources 309
Index 325

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Konrad Zuse was a german civil engineer who, during WWII, essentially invented the computer & some programming theory in parallel with similar inventions from the Allied nations.

He gives some focus to the effects of the war on his work; especially the prototypes destroyed due to it. He also spent a good amount of time talking about a theory of programming languages. He designed a language called the "plan calculus" that is more thoroughly grounded in boolean algebra (instead of numeric operations).

Overall, the book is a fascinating look at Zuse. It's both amazing (in the 1930's, he theorized that one day his computing machines would be able to play chess, and win!) and sad (even up to his death in 1995, some of his ideas received short thrift).

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	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	The Names "ASCC" and "Mark I"
1	Introduction to a Pioneer	1
2	Early Life and Education	9
3	A Harvard Graduate Student	21
4	First Steps Toward a New Type of Calculating Machine	33
5	An Unsuccessful Attempt to Get the Machine Built	39
6	Seeking Support from IBM	45
7	The Proposal for an Automatic Calculating Machine	53
8	Aiken's Background in Computing and Knowledge of Babbage's Machines	61
9	Planning and Beginning the Construction of the Machine	73
10	How to Perform Multiplication and Division by Machine	87
11	Construction of the Machine	95
12	Installing the ASCC/Mark I in Cambridge and Transferring It to the Navy	109
13	Aiken at the Naval Mine Warfare School	115
14	The Dedication	121
15	The Aftermath	131
16	Some Features of Mark I	147
17	Programming and Staffing, Wartime Operation, and the Implosion Computations	159
18	The Mystery of the Number 23	169
19	Tables of Bessel Functions	177
20	Aiken's Harvard Program in Computer Science	185
21	Later Relations between Aiken and IBM	197
22	Aiken at Harvard, 1945-1961	201
23	Life in the Comp Lab	215
24	Retirement from Harvard	227
25	Businessman and Consultant	231
26	A Summing Up	237
App. A	The Harvard News Release	249
App. B	Aiken's Talk at the Dedication	253
App. C	Aiken's Memorandum Describing the Harvard Computation Laboratory	263
App. D	The Stored Program and the Binary Number System	269
App. E	Aiken's Three Later Machines	275
App. F	How Many Computers Are Needed?	283
App. G	The NSF Computer Tree	295
App. H	Who Invented the Computer? Was Mark I a Computer?	297
App. I	The Harvard Computation Laboratory during the 1950s	305
	Sources	309
	Index	325