Herman Heine Goldstine was a mathematician and computer scientist, who was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. He was born on September 13, 1913, Chicago, Illinois, United States. He studied at the University of Chicago where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1933, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He remained in Chicago studying for a Master's degree which he received in the following year, then was awarded a doctorate in 1936 for his thesis Conditions for Minimum of a Functional. During the late 1950s Goldstine joined the staff of IBM, where he eventually served as director of scientific development for data processing; in the late 1960s he became a scientific consultant to the research director and was made an IBM fellow. Goldstine authored one of the earliest textbooks on the history of computers, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (1972). In 1983, he received the National Medal Of Science. He died on June 16, 2004 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.