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3 unusual facts about Douglas Hartree


Douglas Hartree

In February 1945 he went on a two-month tour of computing installations in the USA, including visiting ENIAC (still not complete).

In the summer of 1946 Hartree made his second trip to ENIAC as an evaluation of its applicability to a broad range of science, when he became the first civilian to program it.

Wilkes, then received an invitation from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering (the builders of ENIAC) to attend a course on electronic computers.



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