|Herman Heine Goldstine, mathematician, computer scientist and
scientific administrator: born Chicago 13 September 1913;
Instructor, University of Michigan 1939-42, Assistant Professor
1942-50; Associate Project Director, Electronic Computer
Project, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
1946-55, Project Director 1954-57; research administrator, IBM
1958-73; Executive Director, American Philosophical Society
1984-97; married 1941 Adele Katz (died 1964; one son, one
daughter), 1966 Ellen Watson; died Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 16
June 2004.| Herman Goldstine, one of the five co-inventors of
the modern computer, was also a fine historian with a gift for a
compelling narrative. As he explained it, the invention of the
computer owed a great deal to his chance encounter with the
mathematical genius John von Neumann on a railway platform in
Aberdeen, Maryland, in the summer of 1944. When Goldstine told
von Neumann about the computing project he was working on at the
University of Pennsylvania, "the whole