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unusual facts about Electronic computer



American Society of Health Informatics Managers

ASHIM is a non-profit, non-governmental organization formed in 2009, in response to data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Department of Education, and independent studies that indicated a 2009-2015 shortfall of approximately 51,000 qualified Health IT workers required to meet the needs of hospitals and physicians as they move to adopt electronic health care systems.


see also

ABSS

Automated Boxing Scoring System, an electronic computer-based scoring system for amateur boxing

BINAC

BINAC, the Binary Automatic Computer, was an early electronic computer designed for Northrop Aircraft Company by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1949.

Fourier optics

No electronic computer can compete with these kinds of numbers or perhaps ever hope to, although new supercomputers such as the petaflop IBM Roadrunner may actually prove faster than optics, as improbable as that may seem.

International Computers and Tabulators

Before the merger, under BTM, this had been known as the HEC4 (Hollerith Electronic Computer, fourth version).

Jennifer S. Light

An article by Light, When Computers Were Women, discusses an aspect of the history of computers—specifically that women were not credited for their work on the ENIAC computer, which was America's first electronic computer to automate ballistics computations during WWII.

Raymond Cattell

One reason that Cattell moved to the University of Illinois was that they were developing the first electronic computer, the Illiac I there, which made it possible for him to complete large-scale factor analyses, which had here-to-fore been impossible to conduct.

Samuel Feltman

In 1946, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert developed the first electronic computer at the University of Pennsylvania.

Weizmann

WEIZAC (Weizmann Automatic Computer), the first computer in Israel, and possibly the first large-scale, stored-program, electronic computer outside the US and Europe