After graduation, he worked at Harvard with Dr Howard Aiken on the design of the Mark IV, Aiken's first fully electronic computer.

Aiken was a guest judge on the April 8, 2009 segment of Banks show America's Next Top Model ; in what the show refers to as a teach, he worked with the remaining 8 contestants on their acting skills prior to the judging.

Aiken was also considered for the role of Harry Potter as he had previously worked with director Chris Columbus on Stepmom.

In eulogizing Johnston, his longtime associate, Senator George Aiken of Vermont, noted --" During his entire career in the Senate, he worked for those who needed his help most and whom it would have been easy to ignore and neglect.

Distinguished figures who have worked for the NSWCDD include physicists Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, Carl Norden, and computer pioneers Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper.

Gothic Romances of this description became popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, with authors such as Phyllis A. Whitney, Joan Aiken, Dorothy Eden, Victoria Holt, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart, and Jill Tattersall.

Known officially as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, the Mark I was a general purpose electro-mechanical computer built with IBM financing and with assistance from IBM personnel, under the direction of Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken.

He was on the editorial board, with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley, of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie published 1919 – 1921.

By combining this melodramatic approach with the content of Stowe's novel, Aiken helped to create a powerful visual indictment against the institution of slavery.

In 1874 the border with Aiken County was adjusted slightly.

Aiken was recognized with the All-America City Award in 1997 by the National Civic League.

In the spring of 1931, the nation's attention was riveted on Aiken when Nicholas Longworth, Republican Speaker of the House, came down unexpectedly with pneumonia and died there on April 9, 1931.

In August 2009, it was revealed that American Idol alum, Clay Aiken, had signed with Decca.

An interurban trolley line was constructed through the town with a terminus at the Hampton Terrace, dubbed the Augusta – Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation and later extended to Aiken.

These are located mostly in and around Los Angeles, with a few in the Bay area South Carolina also has a hydrogen freeway project, and the first two hydrogen fueling stations opened in 2009 in Aiken and Columbia, South Carolina.

Under authority granted by the South Carolina General Assembly, the Aiken County Commission for Higher Education entered into an agreement with the University of South Carolina in 1961 to establish a two-year, off-campus center of the University in Aiken County.

The USC Aiken Convocation Center, a facility with a seating occupancy of 4, 000, opened in 2007 as the University's newest facility.

The most important of these new roads connected a newly laid down Market Square, which still survives, with a linen and cambric factory at its eastern end, adjacent to what was once an army cavalry and artillery barracks ( now Aiken Military Barracks ).

The IRA split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and this left Aiken ultimately aligned with the anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War in spite of personal efforts to prevent division and civil war.

Aiken became a source of controversy in mid-1932 when he, along with Vice President of the Executive Council Seán T. O ' Kelly publicly snubbed the Governor-General of the Irish Free State James McNeill, by staging a public walkout at a function in the French legation in Dublin.

Unable to bring the issue of the partition of Ireland to the UN ( because of Britain's veto on the Security Council ) and because of unwillingness of other Western nations to interfere in what these Western nations saw as British affairs at that time ( the US taking a more ambiguous position ), Aiken ensured that Ireland vigorously defended the rights of small nations such as Tibet and Hungary, nations whose problems he felt Ireland could identify with and had a moral obligation to help.

He also introduced the so-called ' Aiken Plan ' to the United Nations in an effort to combine disarmament and peace in the Middle East, Ireland a country being on good terms with both Israel and many Arab countries.

In the UN the Irish delegation sat between Iraq and Israel and formed a kind of physical ' buffer ' and in the days of Aiken ( who as a minister spent a lot of time with the UN delegation ) both the Italians ( who on their turn sat in the vicinity of the Iraqi delegation ), the Irish and the Israeli claimed to be the one and only UN-delegation of New York, a city inhabited by many Irish, Jewish and Italians.

However Aiken refused to reconcile with former friends who had taken sides in the Civil War.

One such static binary translator uses universal superoptimizer peephole technology ( developed by Sorav Bansal, and Alex Aiken from Stanford University ) to perform efficient translation between possibly many source and target pairs, with considerably low development costs and high performance of the target binary.

In 1826 Hogg was in serious trouble with his debts, while the firm of Constable collapsed, involving Walter Scott and Hogg's friend John Aiken.

Aiken created the National Inclusion Project ( formerly the Bubel / Aiken Foundation ) in 2003, accepted a UNICEF ambassadorship in 2004, and in 2006 was appointed for a two-year term to the Presidential Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Playing for his charity, the Bubel / Aiken Foundation, he chose to drop out after the ninth question with $ 300, 000, despite having a copy and a save at his disposal.

He was one of the celebrity readers for the Arthur Celebrity Audiobook ( Stories for Heroes Series ), which benefits the Bubel / Aiken Foundation ( now the National Inclusion Project ) and other charities, and served as spokesperson for the series.

His interest in autism issues led him, along with Diane Bubel ( whose son Michael is diagnosed with autism and was tutored by Aiken ), to found the National Inclusion Project ( formerly the Bubel / Aiken Foundation ), which supports the integration of children with disabilities into the life environment of their non-disabled peers.

On August 5, 2009, in an open letter from the founders, Clay Aiken and Diane Bubel stated " As we realized the impact the Foundation has already made, it became apparent that even bigger accomplishments could be on the horizon.

Gray supported the idea of a visit, but had doubts over whether Aiken was the right person to make it, and stressed that the Irish were only likely to obtain arms if they co-operated with the British Purchasing Commission.

Stunts such as withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at diplomatic functions which the Governor-General attended, or in one notorious case the sight of O ' Kelly and Defence Minister Frank Aiken storming out of a diplomatic function at the French Legation when McNeill, the guest of honour, had arrived, damaged O ' Kelly's reputation and image, particularly when the campaign backfired.

However McNeill's tact was not reciprocated by de Valera's government, some of whose ministers sought to humiliate McNeill as the King's representative, by withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at functions he attended, demanded he withdraw invitations to visitors to meet him and in one notorious incident, two ministers, Seán T. O ' Kelly and Frank Aiken publicly stormed out of a diplomatic function when McNeill, there as the guest of the French ambassador, arrived.

Aiken, operating from the south Armagh / north Louth area, was one of the most effective IRA commanders in Ulster during the conflict.

After his retirement, outgoing President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera, sought to convince Aiken, one of his closest friends, to run for Fianna Fáil in the 1973 presidential election.

Howard Aiken had developed the Harvard Mark I, one of the first large-scale digital computers, while Wassily Leontief was an economist who was developing the input-output model of economic analysis, work for which he would later receive the Nobel prize.

On October 14, 2003, Aiken released his first solo album, Measure of a Man, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was, with 613, 000 copies sold in its first week, the highest-selling debut for a solo artist in 10 years, and to date the highest debut of any Idol.

The album contains ten cover songs and four new songs, one of which Aiken co-wrote.

Performing the songs from his new album, Tried and True, Aiken held a one night only concert at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 12, 2010.

On July 4, 2004, Aiken was one of the performers in the A Capitol Fourth concert in Washington, D. C. and performed in the Good Morning America Summer Concert Series in 2004 and 2005.

The Kimmel appearances often feature skits: in one, Jimmy Kimmel's then girlfriend Sarah Silverman confessed to an affair with Aiken, and in another, Aiken expressed his distaste for Kimmel's jokes about him by beating him up.

On The Tyra Banks Show in 2006, filmed before the Ripa incident, Aiken mentioned wanting to have his own talk show someday, and Banks switched seats with him and let him interview her for one segment of the show.

As Aiken explained to the studio and TV audiences, host Ryan Seacrest, and the four total judges, " Solitaire " had long been one of his mother's all-time favorite songs.

According to one of the witnesses, Conrad Aiken, the ceremony proceeded with Davies " in a near panic ".

When Wicker asked him which senators he respected the most, Mathias listed J. William Fulbright ( D ), Jacob Javits ( R ), John Sherman Cooper ( R ), Cliff Case ( R ), Phil Hart ( D ), Mike Mansfield ( D ), and George Aiken ( R ), because " each one of those people would take an issue on his own responsibility ...

Although she always claimed a birthdate of 1894 and that she was one of a family of twenty children, the 1900 Federal Census shows " Loretter Aiken " in Brevard was born in March 1897 and was the youngest of four ( out of five ) surviving children of James P. and Mary Aiken.

There are two hydrogen fueling stations in South Carolina, one each in Aiken and Columbia, according to the South Carolina Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Alliance.

NuStart Energy Development, LLC selected a site from Oswego, Port Gibson, St. Francisville, Louisiana, Aiken, South Carolina, Lusby, Maryland and Scottsboro, Alabama — four of the sites have operating reactors, one has an unfinished nuclear power plant, and one is the Savannah River Site.

In his final season with the Bills in 2007, Aiken played in 12 games, recording one catch for 10 yards and six special teams tackles.