Clementina, Argentina's first scientific computer
Clementina, primera computadora científica de Argentina
- Date
- 1961 · confidence high
- Place
- Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Credited to
- Manuel Sadosky, Rebeca Guber and the Instituto de Cálculo
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A Ferranti Mercury computer installed at the University of Buenos Aires in 1961, nicknamed Clementina after the song. It drove scientific programming, the Scientific Computing degree and the country's first applications of numerical calculation.
It was not the first computer in Latin America: UNAM installed an IBM 650 in 1958. It is Argentina's first scientific university computer.
What it led to
- Argentina's first Scientific Computing degree (1963)
- Numerical computation for engineering and science in Argentina
- The scientist exodus after the 1966 intervention