Wallace John Eckert (June 19, 1902 – August 24, 1971) was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM. (From Wikipedia)
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Eckert, W. J. (Wallace John), 1902-1971: Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (New York: T. J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University, 1940), also by New York Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
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Eckert, W. J. (Wallace John), 1902-1971: Faster, faster (International Business Machines Corp., 1955), also by Rebecca Bradley Jones (page images at HathiTrust)- Eckert, W. J. (Wallace John), 1902-1971: Faster, faster; a simple description of a giant electronic calculator and the problems it solves (McGraw-Hill, 1955), also by R. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eckert, W. J. (Wallace John), 1902-1971: The solution of the main problem of the lunar theory by the method of Airy (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), also by Harry F. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
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