James H. Pomerene
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 James Herbert Pomerene
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| Born | 22 June 1920, New York |
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James Herbert Pomerene (b. 22 June 1920, New York) is an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
[edit] Biography
He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1942.
In 1946, he joined the Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey under the leadership of John von Neumann. This project built a parallel stored program computer that was the prototype for a number of machines such as the Maniac, Oracle, Illiac, etc. Pomerene designed the adder portion of the arithmetic unit.
In 1956, Pomerene joined the IBM Corporation in Poughkeepsie, where he and several others started the development of various electronic computer systems such as the Harvest computer.
He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1976.
Pomerene is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Edison Medal in 1993, and the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2006.
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