View source for Milestone-Proposal:Harvard Mark 1 Computer, 1944 - 1959

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|a3=1940s
|a1=Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), 1943  to 1945
|plaque citation=DRAFT ONLY.  
Developed by Harvard faculty member Howard Aiken and IBM in the early 1940s, the massive machine was originally called the ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator). The Mark I is considered one of the first electro-mechanical computers ever created and represents a fundamental milestone in the history of modern computing. Software innovations designed by Grace Hooper were an important part of the machine.
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|Senior officer name=Robert Alongi, Business Manager
|Senior officer email=Robert Alongi <r.alongi@ieee.org>
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|a2a=Harvard School of Engineering and Applied  Science,
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138

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|a7=The milestone plaque will be located adjacent the remaining section of the Mark 1.
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|mounting details=Inside the lobby of  Harvard Science Center (1 Oxford Street), Cambridge MA, in proximity to the historical display that features significant components from the original Mark I.
|a9=The  Harvard school lobby is generally opened to the public.
|a10=Harvard School of Engineering and Applied  Science
|permission letter=Letter by CA Murray, Dean of SEAS
|support letter=Boston Section supporting milestones
|a4=From Wikipedia
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I
The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called the Mark I by Harvard University,[1] was an electro-mechanical computer. The electromechanical ASCC was devised by Howard H. Aiken, built at IBM and shipped to Harvard in February 1944. It began computations for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships in May and was officially presented to the university on August 7, 1944.

The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Mark I) was the first operating machine that could execute long computations automatically. A project conceived by Harvard University's Dr. Howard Aiken, the Mark I was built by IBM engineers in Endicott, N.Y. A steel frame 51 feet (16 m) long and eight feet high held the calculator, which consisted of an interlocking panel of small gears, counters, switches and control circuits, all only a few inches in depth. The ASCC used 500 miles (800 km) of wire with three million connections, 3,500 multipole relays with 35,000 contacts, 2,225 counters, 1,464 tenpole switches and tiers of 72 adding machines, each with 23 significant numbers. It was the industry's largest electromechanical calculator.[2]
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|references=IEEE GHN Biography of Howard Aiken, 
 http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Howard_Aiken

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I

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