“Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.”

— Howard Aiken

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About Howard Aiken

Physicist • American

Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneering figure in the field of computing. He was the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I, one of the first large-scale automatic digital...

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