Howard Aiken

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computer scientist computing pioneer electrical engineer human

Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.

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Label	Occurrences
Howard Aiken canonical	2
Howard H. Aiken	2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	computer scientist ⓘ computing pioneer ⓘ electrical engineer ⓘ human ⓘ
awardReceived	Edison Medal ⓘ Harry H. Goode Memorial Award ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1900-03-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1973-03-14 ⓘ
designed	Harvard Mark I computer ⓘ Harvard Mark I computer ⓘ surface form: Harvard Mark II computer Harvard Mark III computer ⓘ Harvard Mark IV computer ⓘ
developed	concepts for sequence-controlled calculators ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Vannevar Bush ⓘ
educatedAt	Harvard University ⓘ University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ
employer	Harvard University ⓘ IBM ⓘ surface form: International Business Machines Corporation
familyName	Aiken ⓘ
fieldOfWork	computer science ⓘ computing ⓘ electrical engineering ⓘ
genre	technical writing ⓘ
givenName	Howard ⓘ
hasAcademicDiscipline	applied mathematics ⓘ
hasEmployer	Harvard Computation Laboratory ⓘ
heritage	American of German descent ⓘ
influenced	development of programmable calculators ⓘ early computer engineering practices ⓘ
knownFor	development of early large-scale automatic digital computers ⓘ pioneering work in computer architecture ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ⓘ
militaryBranch	United States Navy Reserve ⓘ
notableStudent	Grace Hopper ⓘ
notableWork	Harvard Mark I computer ⓘ surface form: Harvard Mark I Harvard Mark I computer ⓘ surface form: IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
occupation	computer scientist ⓘ engineer ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Hoboken ⓘ surface form: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States of America
placeOfDeath	St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ surface form: St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
positionHeld	professor at Harvard University ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
wrote	papers on automatic computing machinery ⓘ

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Gerrit Blaauw → doctoralAdvisor → Howard Aiken ⓘ

Fred Brooks → doctoralAdvisor → Howard Aiken ⓘ

Harvard Mark I computer → designer → Howard Aiken ⓘ

subject surface form: Harvard Mark I

this entity surface form: Howard H. Aiken

Harvard Mark I computer → notableUser → Howard Aiken ⓘ

subject surface form: Harvard Mark I

this entity surface form: Howard H. Aiken