and Aiken was the first to compare himself to Charles Babbage. He saw himself as the second coming of Charles Babbage. And here you have Aiken and Hopper reviewing parts
clay aiken you might actually get the same answer so the answer is d is in dewey all right the religion of the of the nation is
Once Peter Aiken was hired, we brought him into KNB, and we life cast him.
And Eddie Aikau was a lifeguard on the North Shore, a very famous lifeguard, Hawaiian lifeguard, who would swim out in basically any size waves.
"Hopper reported to Howard Aiken's Harvard command in the basement of Harvard's University's Croft Physics Laboratory on 2 July 1944. After being escorted down to the basement by an
Now Howard Aiken was in charge of the Harvard Mark 1. He has an interesting story in and of his own right. In 1938 he was a graduate student at Harvard. But he had spent many
in his footnotes thanks Aiken and Hopper, but never mentions the ENIAC project.
was provided to Howard Aiken externally. People worked night and day because of the war effort.
And our strategy-- I call it the Aikido strategy.
He did doctoral work at Harvard with Aiken and Leontief, who later won the Nobel Prize in economics for his input-output matrices.
And the deal with the Eddie Aikau is the waves have to be 20-foot Hawaiian or bigger.
He had just surfed Eddie Aikau contest that Greg had actually won a few weeks earlier.
was not willing to support Aiken's effort. And Aiken tried for 5 years, excuse me, for 3 years to get their support. It wasn't until Pearl Harbor which opened the door for Aiken
grant to continue to help Howard Aiken, and then they released her. Now let me read a little bit of what happened to her next. "On a cold night in November 1949 only 6 months
bruce springsteen is the clay aiken boston is to new york the chapel is to the house that ruth built all of the above
It's the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau.
that history. Aiken was a hard man to work for. He decided to run the computation laboratory,
I'll quickly show some of these images from the Eddie Aikau.
compliment what I teach is something I call verbal Aikido and verbal Aikido is
art of creating Harmony in opposing energies in Aikido there are no attacks there are no punches the only thing you
A couple weeks ago, we had Clay Aiken-- you might know him as being a second place runner up in American Idol and on Celebrity Apprentice, though I think he
of anything to say at that point'. Aiken ordered his new assistant to put off finding a place to live for another day and to get to work immediately. Her first task was to compute
The amount of work, if you know how to Aikido double dig-- which actually, you don't do the work.
Hopper recalled. Years later she distinctly remembered the first words uttered to her by Aiken. 'Where the hell have you been?' Aiken had expected Hopper months earlier and
had not seen the point of sending a female mathematician to midshipman school. Aiken proceeded to give his new recruit a tour of the automatic sequence control calculator.
of the original difference engine that Babbage had created. In effect Aiken saw himself as Babbage and Hopper, his assistant, as Ada Lovelace, if any of you are familiar with
1950 and 1951 because no one really understood why you would want one of these. Howard Aiken
Interestingly enough once you took the war away, the process of innovation collapsed on Howard Aiken because he didn't know how to lead people. Hopper was so good at painting
When someone tries to take this thing away from me, we struggle, we fight, but if they do it, it's like an Aikido exercise.
But this just happens to be a 55, 60-foot wave in Waimea Bay, the last Eddie Aikau.
Lauren: Oh yeah. Scotty: Yeah, I was mainly a huge voter, but in Season 2, Clay Aiken was in it and he was like, ten minutes from my house.
military said "we're going to go back to our pre-war policy and not have active officers as women". She wanted to stay on at Harvard, Howard Aiken was made a full professor, but
There's some -- definitely some other pictures in this show from just a couple months ago. The Eddie Aikau when they had the biggest