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Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist)
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<p>Nathaniel Rochester (January 14, 1919 – June 8, 2001) was the chief architect of the <a href="/facts/IBM_701/6ngzwkFp">IBM 701</a>, the first mass produced scientific computer, and of the prototype of its first commercial version, the <a href="/facts/IBM_702/sImMrrYS">IBM 702</a>. He wrote the first <a href="/facts/Assembly_language/7XuV0cla">assembler</a> and participated in the founding of the field of <a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence/lJGauQwX">artificial intelligence</a>. </p>