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Jan 1, 1914 — —· 112 yrs

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I. Bernard Cohen

Also known as: I. B. Cohen, Bernard I. Cohen

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Odd as it may seem, most people's views about motion are part of a system of physics that was proposed more than 2000 years ago and was experimentally shown to be inadequate at least 1400 years ago.

— from The birth of a new physics, 1960

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The birth of a new physics

1960

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Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.

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The works of Charles Babbage

1987

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Howard Aiken

1999

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Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973) was a major figure of the early digital era. He is best known for his first machine, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I, conceived in 1937 and put into operation in 1944. But he also made significant contributions to the development of applications for the new machines and to the creation of a university curriculum for computer science. This biography of Aiken, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard, offers a clear and often entertaining introduction to Aiken and his times.

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