Frank E. Hamilton
Francis "Frank" E. Hamilton (* 1898 ; † 1972 ) was a computer engineer at IBM and co-developer of the Mark I computer.
From 1923, Hamilton was with the Computing Tabulating and Recording Company (CTR), the forerunner of IBM. First he was a draftsman, then he worked with Clair Lake and AW Mills in product development, for example at ASCC (the Mark I computer project at Harvard University under Howard Aiken ) and then in 1948 on the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) under the direction of the astronomer Wallace John Eckert , who was 250 times faster than the ASCC and was used for special astronomical tasks. He then led the development of the IBM 650 , the most successful electronic computer of its time, which was produced from 1953. In 1954 he became head of the IBM laboratory in Endicott.
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame . In 1963 he became an IBM Fellow .
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| SURNAME | Hamilton, Frank E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hamilton, Francis E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1972 |