One of the Founding Fathers Of Computing – Harry Huskey Has Died at aged 101

Posted by at 2:07 pm on April 21, 2017

Engineer Harry Huskey, who helped build many of the first ever computers, has died aged 101.

Dr Huskey was a key member of the team that built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Eniac) which first ran in February 1946.

Eniac is widely considered to be one of the first electronic, general purpose, programmable computers.

Dr Huskey also helped complete work on the Ace – the Automatic Computing Engine – designed by Alan Turing, after the war.

 

 

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