Howard Aiken: Mastermind of the Harvard Mark Computers

In perusing the earliest computers, we have often seen different definitions of what a computer was. This is certainly understandable as the pioneers juggled concepts and available technologies. Arthur Burks wrote three books1 describing progress toward what we consider today to be an electronic digital computer: the first electronic digital computer (Atanasoff), the first general purpose electronic digital computer (Mauchly), and the first...