Herman Heine Goldstine, 90, helped develop first computers
BRYN MAWR, Pa. -- Herman Heine Goldstine, a mathematician involved in the development of the first electronic computers, died June 16 of Parkinson's disease, a funeral home said. He was 90.
Mr. Goldstine persuaded the military to back the development of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, to calculate artillery firing tables.
He lobbied the Army to provide $500,000 for research carried out at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School, where the 80-foot-long computer with 18,000 vacuum tubes was created.
Mr. Goldstine then served as associate director of an electronic computer project at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where he collaborated on the design of a second-generation computer.
He was hired by 
