FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -The original Mark I weighed five tons and was 50 feet long. It was the brainchild of a Harvard graduate student, Howard Aiken, who designed it in 1937, building on decades-old inspiration from British engineer and inventor Charles Babbage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conceived in the 1930s by Howard H. Aiken, a graduate student in theoretical physics at Harvard University, the ASCC was developed and built by IBM during World War II.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aiken headed a team of three engineers, including Grace Hopper. The Mark I was completed in 1944. Aiken completed the Mark II, an electronic computer, in 1947. He founded the Harvard Computation Laboratory that same year.