The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) was an electromechanical computer built by IBM. Its design was started in late 1944 and it operated...
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SSEC can refer to: IBM SSEC, an electromechanical calculator in the 1940s Sarnia Sports & Entertainment Centre, Ontario, Canada Secondary Schools Examinations...
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Speedcoding (redirect from IBM Type 701 Speedcoding System)
floating point numbers. The idea arose from the difficulty of programming the IBM SSEC machine when Backus was hired to calculate astronomical positions in early...
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1964. IBM SSEC: IBM announced the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), its initial large-scale digital calculating machine. The SSEC, employing...
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electronic digital stored-program computer. It is sometimes claimed that the IBM SSEC, operational in January 1948, was the first stored-program computer; this...
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1944 IBM SSEC: Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator; 1948 IBM Deep Blue: Chess playing computer developed for 1997 match with Garry Kasparov IBM Watson:...
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mobile computers were heavy and ran from mains power. The 50 lb (23 kg) IBM 5100 was an early example. Later portables such as the Osborne 1 and Compaq...
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architecture, first implemented in 1948 in America in the electromechanical IBM SSEC and in Britain in the fully electronic Manchester Baby. Zuse suffered setbacks...
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Harvard Mark I (redirect from IBM ASCC)
IBM's help, and the ASCC came to be generally known as the "Harvard Mark I". IBM went on to build its Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC)...
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Computer (ILLIAC) at the University of Illinois, (September 1952) The IBM SSEC had the ability to treat instructions as data, and was publicly demonstrated...
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program, where it is used by a later channel command to access the disk. The IBM SSEC, demonstrated in January 1948, had the ability to modify its instructions...
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completed, and some dates are for the first delivery or installation. The IBM SSEC had the ability to treat instructions as data, and was publicly demonstrated...
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Thomas J. Watson Jr. (category IBM employees)
overpriced and unreliable, except for one-of-a-kind projects such as the IBM SSEC. Tom Jr. took the company in a new direction, hiring electrical engineers...
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Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 239, 352. ISBN 9783642961458. [...] IBM SSEC [...] was hardly a stored program computer [...] being basically a tape-controlled...
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2020-07-02. General Information Manual: An Introduction to IBM Punched Card Data Processing. IBM. p. 1. Janda, Kenneth (1965). Data Processing. Northwestern...
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being studied at Los Alamos by Stanislaw Ulam. Richtmyer used the massive IBM SSEC calculator for some of the first large-scale uses of what would be called...
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John Backus (category IBM Fellows)
mathematics, and joined IBM in 1950. During his first three years, he worked on the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC); his first major project...
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Edgar F. Codd (category IBM employees)
New York to work for IBM as a mathematical programmer. Codd first worked for the company's Selective Sequence Electronic (SSEC) project and was later...
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Cuthbert Hurd (category IBM employees)
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...
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of the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At the SSEC, Suomi and Parent developed the Spin Scan Cloudcover...
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recruiting tool. Eckert published a description of the SSEC in November 1948. As an employee of IBM, Eckert directed one of the first industrial research...
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James W. Bryce (category IBM employees)
Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC). However, he was too ill to attend the dedication of the SSEC in January 1948, and died in March 1949.: 145 ...
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Robert Rex Seeber Jr. (category IBM employees)
Rex Seeber Jr. (1910-1969), an inventor at IBM, co-invented the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC). He was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated...
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Harvard Mark I, used paper tape with 24 rows, The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) used paper tape with 74 rows. Australia's 1951 electronic...
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2013-08-18. Sokolski, Henry D. (2005). Getting Ready for Nuclear-Ready Iran - ßĘČ Google. DIANE. ISBN 9781428916340. Retrieved 2013-08-18. Co-operation Agreement...
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July 2018. Admin (2015-07-01). "GlobalFoundries Completes Acquisition of IBM Microelectronics Business". GlobalFoundries. Retrieved 2023-03-01. McCallum...
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Electric Tabulation Machine". museum.ipsj.or.jp. Retrieved 2022-07-15. "IBM Tabulators and Accounting Machines". "Percy E. Ludgate Prize in Computer...
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S2CID 144457905. "The Comparative Roles of Groups in Political Systems", SSEC Items, Vol. 15 (June 1969). "Italy: Fragmentation, Isolation and Alienation"...
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