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The Comparative Analysis Of The History Of The Computer Science And The Computer Engineering In The USA And Ukraine
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The Comparative Analysis Of The History Of The Computer Science And The Computer Engineering In The USA And Ukraine. HOWARD H. AIKEN AND THE COMPUTER Howard Aiken's contributions to the development of the computer -notably the Harvard Mark I (IBM ASSC) machine, and its successor the Mark II - are often excluded from the mainstream history of computers on two technicalities. The first is that Mark I and Mark II were electro-mechanical rather than electronic; the second one is that Aiken was never convinced that computer programs should be treated as data in what has come to be known as the von Neumann concept, or the stored program. It is not proposed to discuss here the origins and significance of the stored program. Nor I wish to deal with the related problem of whether the machines before the stored program were or were not "computers". This subject is complicated by the confusion in...
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