The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...
Who invented the digital computer? Depending on your definition, mathematical pioneers such as John von Neumann or Alan Turing might spring to mind, but its origin lies with US physicist John ...
If you've got an iPhone or a laptop or a high-powered desktop -- any computer, really -- you can thank bourbon for all of them. Bourbon and soda, in fact, because that's what Iowa State College ...
At a little-noted White House ceremony Nov. 13, President Bush stepped off the platform to present a National Medal of Technology to an 87-year-old man named John V. Atanasoff whose work has changed ...
"The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer" by Jane Smiley; Doubleday (256 pages, $25.95) Neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates invented the computer, despite the ...
Augustana College will host, "Birth of the Computer: The John Atanasoff Story," 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at Wallenberg Hall inside the Denkmann Memorial Building on the Augustana College campus. This ...
Novelist Jane Smiley has her own ideas about which invention ranks as the most important of the 20th century, said Michael Rosenwald in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. In this “graceful” new work of ...
If you've got an iPhone or a laptop or a high-powered desktop -- any computer, really -- you can thank bourbon for all of them. Bourbon and soda, in fact, because that's what Iowa State College ...