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  1. Aiken, Howard 1900- ?.
  2. US mathematician. In 1939, in conjunction
  3. with engineers from IBM, he started work on
  4. the design of an automatic calculator using
  5. standard business machine components. In 1944
  6. they completed one of the first
  7. computers, the Automatic Sequence Controlled
  8. Calculator (known as the Mark 1), a
  9. programmable computer controlled by punched
  10. paper tape and using punched cards.
  11.