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Howard Aiken made several important contributions to the early computing field. He showed that a large calculating machine could be built that would provide speedy solutions to mathematical problems. He also made important contributions to early computer science education.
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Howard Aiken. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_2
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