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John Vincent Atanasoff OCM (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. [1] Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College (now known as Iowa State University).
The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital ... but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff. ...
The Man Who Invented the Computer is a 2010 historical biography by author Jane Smiley about American physicist John Vincent Atanasoff and the invention of the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the 1942 Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital computing device.
The decision held, in part, the following: 1. that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from the Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC), prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, 2. that Atanasoff should have legal recognition as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer and 3.
In the US, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed and tested the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) in 1942, [48] the first "automatic electronic digital computer". [49] This design was also all-electronic and used about 300 vacuum tubes, with capacitors fixed in a mechanically rotating drum for memory. [50]
Atanasoff-Berry Computer Archive, Computer Science Dept., Iowa State; June 7, 1972 interview with Atanasoff on Berry, Smithsonian National Museum of American History; A. R. Mackintosh, “Dr. Atanasoff’s Computer”, Scientific American, August 1988 (Archived 2009-10-31) "ABC - Atanasoff-Berry Computer", I Programmer
John Vincent Atanasoff – computer pioneer, creator of Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC) Shakuntala Atre – database theory Lennart Augustsson – languages (Lazy ML , Cayenne), compilers (HBC Haskell , parallel Haskell front end, Bluespec SystemVerilog early), LPMud pioneer, NetBSD device drivers
John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create the first electronic non-programmable, digital computing device, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, that lasted from 1937 to 1942. 1940s [ edit ]