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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).
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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.
Please change "John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor" to "John Vincent Atanasoff was an Bulgarian physicist and inventor" ,becouse he is Bulgarian. FortonBG ( talk ) 13:52, 4 July 2015 (UTC) [ reply ]
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.
Nuclear bomb and ballistics simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL), respectively. [1]Monte Carlo simulation (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century by Jack Dongarra and Francis Sullivan in the 2000 issue of Computing in Science and Engineering) [2] is invented at Los Alamos National Laboratory by John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam ...
John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and one of the inventors of the computer, 1903 - 1995. Kosta Atanasov, a Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, 1870 - 1912; Krassimir Atanassov (born 1954), Bulgarian mathematician; Manol Atanassov (born 1991), Bulgarian figure skater; Myléna Atanassova (born 1963), Bulgarian fashion designer and painter