Herman Goldstine
Herman Goldstine · Technology & Engineering
Co-architect of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer; National Medal of Science (1983)
1913, Chicago, Illinois, USA — 2004, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
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Herman Goldstine is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-architect of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer; National Medal of Science (1983)
Goldstine was a mathematician and a principal builder of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, and worked with John von Neumann on the stored-program architecture underlying modern computers. He later led computing research at IBM and wrote a definitive history of the field. He received the National Medal of Science in 1983 and was born into a Jewish family in Chicago.
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Co-architect of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer; National Medal of Science (1983)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
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