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The ABC had been examined by John Mauchly in June 1941, and Isaac Auerbach, [16] a former student of Mauchly's, alleged that it influenced his later work on ENIAC, although Mauchly denied this. [17] The ENIAC patent did not issue until 1964, and by 1967 Honeywell sued Sperry Rand in an attempt to break the ENIAC patents, arguing that the ABC ...
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).
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
Helped establish and taught the first graduate course in computer science (at Harvard); invented the APL programming language; contributions to interactive computing 1801 Jacquard, Joseph Marie: Built and demonstrated the Jacquard loom, a programmable mechanized loom controlled by a tape constructed from punched cards 1206 Al-Jazari
Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ ˈ b æ b ɪ dʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
Today we take a look at the life and work of Mark Dean. Dr. Mark Dean, an African-American computer scientist and engineer, spent over 30 years at IBM pursuing the Next Big Thing. He was chief ...
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Tom Kilburn CBE FRS (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001) was an English mathematician and computer scientist. [1] [2] Over his 30-year career, he was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance.