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... Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland . Ironically for a man who hated militarism and spent much of his career denouncing the growth of the military - indus- trial complex , Wiener at Aberdeen helped the Army compile fir- ing tables for ...
... Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland . Ironically for a man who hated militarism and spent much of his career denouncing the growth of the military - indus- trial complex , Wiener at Aberdeen helped the Army compile fir- ing tables for ...
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... Aberdeen . The Model 5s were highly reliable . In one week the Aberdeen Model 5 averaged more than twenty - three hours per day of up - time , meaning steady , trouble - free operation . Together the Aberdeen Model 5 and its counterpart ...
... Aberdeen . The Model 5s were highly reliable . In one week the Aberdeen Model 5 averaged more than twenty - three hours per day of up - time , meaning steady , trouble - free operation . Together the Aberdeen Model 5 and its counterpart ...
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... Aberdeen Proving Ground , by the Moore School of Engineering , University of Pennsylvania . ” A footnote explained ... Aberdeen seemed the most promising place to start looking , and so , later in April 1943 , Eckert and Mauchly ...
... Aberdeen Proving Ground , by the Moore School of Engineering , University of Pennsylvania . ” A footnote explained ... Aberdeen seemed the most promising place to start looking , and so , later in April 1943 , Eckert and Mauchly ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
George Stibitz and the Bell Computers | 33 |
The Harvard Mark I and the ZSeries | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Aberdeen analog arithmetic Atanasoff and Berry Babbage Babbage's Bell Labs BINAC binary Bletchley Park Bombe Brainerd British building built Bush calculating machines called Charles Babbage chine ciphers circuits codebreaking Colossus components computer pioneers computing machines condensers delay storage lines described Description and Accomplishments desktop calculator device differential analyzer digital computer Eckert and Mauchly EDVAC electric electromechanical electronic computer engineers ENIAC Enigma George Stibitz German Goldstine hardware Harvard Heath Robinson helped History of Computing Howard Aiken IAS computer idea input invention Iowa John Mauchly JOHNNIAC Kelvin Langley later looked Mark math mathematician mathematics Mauchly's mechanical memory mercury delay messages Model Moore School Neumann Norbert Wiener number sieves numbers once operation patent problem punched puters relays reliable rotors SEAC solve SSEC stored-program concept switches tape tion told Turing Turing's University vacuum tubes Watson wheels Williams tube wires Zuse Zuse's