Howard H. Aiken
1900 - 1973
Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900 – 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. Computer scientist; Educator; Inventor.
"HOWARD H. AIKEN, BUILT COMPUTER; Developer of the Mark I Dies," The New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CEEDA1438EF3ABC4E52DFB5668388669EDE (accessed 08/18/2014)