By Anthony G. Oettinger, Howard Aiken
Communications of the ACM,
June 1962,
Vol. 5 No. 6, Pages 298-299
10.1145/367766.367776
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In retrospect, it is obvious that Charles Babbage, when writing these words, had Howard Aiken in mind. In July 1961, twenty-four years after conceiving the idea that led to Mark I and after over a quarter century of service to Harvard University and to the advancement of science, Howard Aiken became Professor of Applied Mathematics, Emeritus, and embarked on his present career as a consultant with the same boundless energy and imagination that gave momentum to one of the most revolutionary and important technological advances of this century.
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