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Makin' Numbers : Howard Aiken and the Computer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of Computing SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262270571
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Makin' NumbersDDC classification:
  • 004/.092 B
LOC classification:
  • QA76.2.A35 -- M35 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Makin' Numbers -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Name "Mark I" -- Makin' Numbers -- Introducing Howard Aiken -- Aiken's Machines -- Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine -- Aiken's First Machine: The IBM ASCC/Harvard Mark I -- Constructing the IBM ASCC (Harvard Mark I) -- Programming Mark I -- Mark II, an Improved Mark I -- Aiken's Alternative Number System -- Aiken's Program of Instruction and Training -- Aiken and the Harvard "Comp Lab" -- Aiken as a Teacher -- Aiken's Program in a Harvard Setting -- Recollections -- Commander Aiken and My Favorite Computer -- Reminiscences of Aiken during World War II and Later -- Reminiscences of the Boss -- A View from Overseas -- Aiken at Home, 1973 -- In His Own Words -- Aiken in His Own Words -- Appendixes -- Speciªcations of Aiken's Four Machines -- Aiken's Doctoral Students and Their Dissertations -- Index.
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Makin' Numbers -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Name "Mark I" -- Makin' Numbers -- Introducing Howard Aiken -- Aiken's Machines -- Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine -- Aiken's First Machine: The IBM ASCC/Harvard Mark I -- Constructing the IBM ASCC (Harvard Mark I) -- Programming Mark I -- Mark II, an Improved Mark I -- Aiken's Alternative Number System -- Aiken's Program of Instruction and Training -- Aiken and the Harvard "Comp Lab" -- Aiken as a Teacher -- Aiken's Program in a Harvard Setting -- Recollections -- Commander Aiken and My Favorite Computer -- Reminiscences of Aiken during World War II and Later -- Reminiscences of the Boss -- A View from Overseas -- Aiken at Home, 1973 -- In His Own Words -- Aiken in His Own Words -- Appendixes -- Speciªcations of Aiken's Four Machines -- Aiken's Doctoral Students and Their Dissertations -- Index.

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