Benjamin Durfee
Benjamin M. Durfee (* 1897 ; † 1980 ) was a computer engineer at IBM and co-developer of the Mark I computer.
From 1917 Durfee was with the Computing Tabulating and Recording Company (CTR), the forerunner of IBM . He was in the device service department in Cleveland and assisted Clair Lake in testing a tabulating machine without a print function and with automatic group control. Soon after, Lake brought him to the company's lab in Endicott, New York, where he helped build, test, and train the Type I tabulator. In 1924 he assembled the first device exported to Europe in Paris. From 1939 he worked with Lake and Frank E. Hamilton from IBM on the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), the Mark I computer, which was under the direction of Howard Aiken at Harvard University . In particular, he tested the computer at Endicott and Harvard.
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame .
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| SURNAME | Durfee, Benjamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Durfee, Benjamin M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |