Background
Pomerene was born June 22, 1920 in Yonkers, New New York His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower.
electrical engineer computer scientist
Pomerene was born June 22, 1920 in Yonkers, New New York His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower.
He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1942. In 1946, he joined the Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study (Institute for Advanced Study ) in Princeton, New Jersey under the leadership of John von Neumann. The project built a parallel stored program computer called the Institute for Advanced Study machine that was the prototype for a number of machines such as the MANIAC I, ORACLE, and ILLIAC series.
Pomerene designed and implemented the adder portion of the arithmetic unit
Collaborating with engineers such as Bruce Gilchrist and Y.K. Wong, they invented a fast adder which incorporated a speed up technique for asynchronous adders reducing the time for additive carry-overs to propagate. This design was actually later incorporated in one commercial computer, the Philco TRANSAC South-2000, introduced in 1957, the first commercial transistorized computer.
Pomerene became chief engineer on the Institute for Advanced Study computer project from 1951 to 1956. In Summer 1956, Pomerene joined the International Business Machines Corporation Corporation in Poughkeepsie, where he and several others started the development of various electronic computer systems such as the International Business Machines Corporation 7030 and Harvest computers.
He was appointed an International Business Machines Corporation Fellow in 1976.
He held 37 patents when he retired from International Business Machines Corporation in 1993. He died December 7, 2008 in Chappaqua, New New York
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Pomerene was a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.