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3 unusual facts about Herman Goldstine


Herman Goldstine

In 1941 he married Adele Katz who was an ENIAC programmer and wrote the technical description for ENIAC.

He was commissioned a lieutenant and worked as an ordnance mathematician calculating firing tables at the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Samuel Feltman

Lieutenant Herman Goldstine was the Army Officer most directly involved in the development of ENIAC.


J. Presper Eckert

Mauchly's proposal for building an electronic digital computer using vacuum tubes, many times faster and more accurate than the differential analyzer for computing ballistics tables for artillery, caught the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943 was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others.


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