Cuthbert Hurd
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Cuthbert Corwin Hurd was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in helping the International Business Machines Corporation develop its first general-purpose computers.
The IBM 650 was developed by the division headed by Cuthbert Hurd
IBM SSEC
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The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator was an electromechanical computer built by IBM. Its design was started in late 1944 and it operated from January 1948 to August 1952. It had many of th
Cuthbert Hurd
…potential for automating the massive amounts of computation needed for nuclear Physics research. In February 1948 he was invited to the dedication of the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), a custom-built machine in New York City. He asked if the SSEC could be used for calculations being done at Oak Ridge for the NEPA project to…
SSEC control desk
IBM SSEC block diagram