Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howard H. Aiken, professor of applied mathematics, Emeritus, received a Doctor of Science degree for his work in helping to develop the computer. Marston Morse, a pioneer in the mathematical field of variational theory in the large, also received a Doctor of Science degree...
...Aiken developed the Mark I, the forerunner of today's computers, while at Harvard; he worked on later models in the "Mark" series and organized the Harvard Computation Laboratories...
HENRY DAVID AIKEN...
...letter in this week's issue of time magazine, Aiken decried the chilliness and scorn" of a letter written by Bundy--and printed in Time (May 7) in which he rejected the invitation 127 faculty members to come to Washington University and answer their questions about Vietnam...
...Aiken described Bundy as "more rapid than accurate, more facile than . . ." He said that the icy tone Bundy's refusal was a sign "of bureaucratic self-righteousness" resulting from prolonged "insulation" from the anxieties that Mr. Bundy's colleagues toward the foreign policies that he has helped shape in recent years...