Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the...
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Computer Heritage Pilot Study: Deliveries of Ferranti Mark I and Mark I Star computers". Computer Conservation Society. Archived from the original on 11...
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The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during...
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Mark Edward Dean (born March 2, 1957) is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus with his partner Dennis Moeller, and he led...
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The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was produced...
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fighter aircraft Mark I Fire Control Computer, United States Navy fire control computer used in World War II surface ships Mark I Nuclear Weapon (Little...
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Information technology (redirect from Computer services)
of computers to be designed with greatly reduced power consumption. The first commercially available stored-program computer, the Ferranti Mark I, contained...
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Grace Hopper (category American computer programmers)
one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic...
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aspects of driver assist and autonomous driving. The case for the Mark I computer was designed by Bel Geddes at IBM's expense, and put in place just...
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Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used...
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Christopher Strachey's Checkers Program (section The University of Manchester and the Ferranti Mark I)
ran at a reasonable speed during the summer of 1952 on the Ferranti Mark I computer at the University of Manchester. Strachey was quickly drawn to intelligent...
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of display lamps for results. In 1956, the Whirlwind Mark I computer became the first computer equipped with a keyboard-printer combination with which...
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The Harvard Mark II, also known as the Aiken Relay Calculator, was an electromechanical computer built under the direction of Howard Aiken at Harvard University...
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University's early Mark I computer. Householder and Weinberg insisted that the Laboratory should also acquire its own "automatic sequencing computer" to be used...
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Ordnance as an alternative to the Ford Instruments Mark I Fire Control Computer, in case supplies of the Mk I were interrupted or were unable to be manufactured...
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Analytical engine (category Computer-related introductions in 1837)
minutes". By comparison the Harvard Mark I could perform the same task in just six seconds (though it is debatable that computer is Turing complete; the ENIAC...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
Lavington 1998, p. 25. Our Computer Heritage Pilot Study: Deliveries of Ferranti Mark I and Mark I Star computers., Computer Conservation Society, archived...
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Audrey Bates (programmer) (category British women computer scientists)
British-American computer programmer who, in 1948, wrote the earliest program for lambda calculus calculations on the Manchester Mark I computer. Bates graduated...
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July 2016). "Mark Burgess on Computer Immunology and Configuration Management". InfoQ (Interview). Retrieved 26 August 2016. Burgess, Mark (3 March 1991)...
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Grimsdale also worked on the Ferranti Mark I computer, a commercial development of the Manchester Mark 1 computer. He also designed the 100-nanosecond...
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A vacuum-tube computer, now termed a first-generation computer, is a computer that uses vacuum tubes for logic circuitry. While the history of mechanical...
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original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I, the United States' first programmable computer. Aiken was born on 8 March 1900, in Hoboken, New...
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veteran who became known as the father of computer science. Turing introduced him to the Manchester Mark I computer and enlisted his help working on it. In...
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Gerrit Blaauw (category Dutch computer scientists)
Howard Aiken, inventor of the early Mark I computer. At Harvard, he worked on design of the Mark III and Mark IV computers. Blaauw met Fred Brooks while he...
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was a series of early computer systems created by J. Lyons and Co. The first in the series, the LEO I, was the first computer used for commercial business...
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The Mark I Perceptron was a pioneering supervised image classification learning system developed by Frank Rosenblatt in 1958. It was the first implementation...
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calculator (although part imprecisions hindered its function) Mark I Fire Control Computer, deployed by the United States Navy during World War II (1939...
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The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative...
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mark. Printed forms, printed documents, and computer software (see checkbox) commonly include squares in which to place check marks. The check mark is...
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List of programmers (category Computer programmers)
Grace Hopper – Harvard Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC, COBOL Paul Hudak – Haskell language design, textbooks on it and computer music David A. Huffman –...
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