Birthday of Dr.
Howard T. Engstrom – Promoter of Digital Computer
American computer designer who promoted the first
commercially available digital computer, the Univac. As a Yale professor he had
written a paper on the mathematical basis for cryptanalysis techniques. During
WW II he was called to the Navy and placed in command of the OP-20-G automated
machines "Research Section" for message decryption. After the war, he
was a co-founder of
Engineering Research Associates, a private company to work on electronic
digital circuit technology for the Navy on a contract basis, with former Navy
researchers. ERA delivered its
first Atlas computer to the National Security Agency in Dec 1950. As vice
president for research, Engstrom took the initiative to make a commercial
version, renamed Univac.
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