Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.
Howard Aiken
Harvard Mark I / IBM ASCC, left side.
The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), 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.
Tape punch used to prepare programs