24K views · 2.4K reactions | The Mark I, one of the world’s first programmable computers, was designed by Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken in 1937. It recently moved from the Science Center to the newly completed Science and Engineering Complex. | Harvard University | Facebook

Harvard Mark I, 2022 with Professor Harry Lewis "The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was a general-purpose electromechanical computer used in the war effort during the last part of World War II. One of the first programs to run on the Mark I was initiated on 29 March 1944 by John von Neumann. At that time, von Neumann was working on the Manhattan Project, and needed to determine whether implosion was a viable choice to detonate the atomic bomb that would b