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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| The Name "Mark I" | ||
| Introducing Howard Aiken | 1 | |
| I | Aiken's Machines | |
| Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine | 9 | |
| Aiken's First Machine: The IBM ASCC/Harvard Mark I | 31 | |
| Constructing the IBM ASCC (Harvard Mark I) | 65 | |
| Programming Mark I | 77 | |
| Mark II, an Improved Mark I | 111 | |
| Aiken's Alternative Number System | 129 | |
| II | Aiken's Program of Instruction and Training | |
| Aiken and the Harvard "Comp Lab" | 137 | |
| Aiken as a Teacher | 143 | |
| Aiken's Program in a Harvard Setting | 163 | |
| III | Recollections | |
| Commander Aiken and My Favorite Computer | 185 | |
| Reminiscences of Aiken during World War II and Later | 195 | |
| Reminiscences of the Boss | 203 | |
| A View from Overseas | 215 | |
| Aiken at Home, 1973 | 219 | |
| IV | In His Own Words | |
| Aiken in His Own Words: Selected and introduced by Gregory Welch | 229 | |
| Specifications of Aiken's Four Machines | 257 | |
| Aiken's Doctoral Students and Their Dissertations | 273 | |
| Index | 275 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Stephen Brown
reviewed Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer on January 17, 2013
Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer
The book starts nice with math and early computing and has great pictures of the Mark I, II, III and IV. The end was to much about how wonderful H. Aiken is, to my linking.
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Add Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer, with the cooperation of Robert V. D. CampbellThis collection of technical essays and reminiscences is a companion volume to I. Bernard Cohen's biography,Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. After an overview by Cohen, Part I presents the first co, Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer to your collection on WonderClub |
