Harvard Mark I
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The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
Closeup of input/output and control readers
The left end consisted of electromechanical computing components.
The right end included data and program readers, and automatic typewriters.
Card punch used to prepare programs
Howard H. Aiken
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Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing. He was the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I, the United States' first programmable computer.
Harvard Mark I
…lobby of Harvard's new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston, Massachusetts. The origins of the Harvard Mark I can be traced back to 1935, when Howard Aiken conceived of building a powerful, large-scale calculating machine while pursuing graduate studies in physics at Harvard University. Aiken presented his…
Howard Aiken