Clair Lake (computer scientist)
Clair D. Lake ( May 4, 1888 - November 27, 1958 ) was a computer engineer at IBM and co-developer of the Mark I computer.
Lake was from 1923 with the Computing Tabulating and Recording Company (CTR), the forerunner of IBM. In the early 1920s, he developed the Type 1 tabulating machine from IBM in the Endicott laboratory , which was the prototype for further developments at IBM. He was also significantly involved in the development of other punch card devices (including the punch card with 80 columns). From 1925 to 1930 he was a senior engineer and managed production in Endicott. From 1939 he was a senior engineer in the Mark I computer project ( Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator , ASCC), in which he worked with Howard Aiken from Harvard.
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame .
literature
- Lars Heide: Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945. in: Studies in industry and society. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009, pp. 112-114.
Web links
- Clair Lake in the database of Find a Grave (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lake, Clair |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lake, Clair D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1888 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1958 |