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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).

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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.

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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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