J. Halcombe Laning
J. Halcombe "Hal" Laning Jr. (February 14, 1920, in
In 1956 he published the book Random Processes in Automatic Control (McGraw-Hill Series on Control System Engineering), with Richard Battin as a coauthor.
In collaboration with Phil Hankins and Charlie Werner of MIT, he initiated work on MAC (MIT Algebraic Compiler), an algebraic programming language for the IBM 650, which was completed by early spring of 1958.[3]
Career
Laning received his PhD from MIT in 1947 with a dissertation titled "Mathematical Theory of Lubrication-Type Flow".[4] His undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering (1940) was also from MIT.[5]
He was elected to the
Laning features prominently in the third episode of the Science Channel's documentary miniseries titled Moon Machines which aired in June 2008.
Apollo Program
He later worked in the MIT
References
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- ^ Guidance system
- ^ J. Halcombe Laning, Jr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ MIT Museum Collections - People
- ^ "Dr. J. Halcombe Laning". Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
- ^ "Notices from the AMS" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. 42 (12). Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ "TALES FROM THE LUNAR MODULE GUIDANCE COMPUTER". klabs.org.