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...Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy and a sponsor of the meeting, said yesterday that the aim of the meeting was not a "narrow partisan...
...hope," he said, "to enlist the sympathies of a broad spectrum of the faculties of universities and colleges in the greater Boston area." Aiken noted that the committee hoped to have a membership of several hundred soon...
...Aiken said that he felt the meeting's purpose was threefold. "In addition to replying to Rusk," he continued, "I think that we want to express our sense of the immense moral responsibility which rests upon the American government and people in the present situation...
...suggestion of Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, the members decided to continue as an informal Faculty discussion group modeled after another several Faculty group that was organized before the Second World...
...calculation." In 1834 an eccentric Englishman named Charles Babbage conceived the idea of a steam-driven "Analytical Engine" that in many details anticipated the basic principles of modern computers. But not until 1944 did man invent the first true computer: the Mark I, developed by Harvard Professor Howard Aiken and used to compute weapon trajectories for the U.S. Navy...