John Atanasoff (1903-1995) was a pioneer in the field of computer science. In the late 1930s, while teaching at Iowa State University, he designed and built an electronic computing machine with one of his graduate students, Clifford Berry. The...

John Atanasoff was a pioneer in the field of computer science. In the late 1930s, while teaching at Iowa State University, he designed and built an electronic computing machine with one of his graduate students, Clifford Berry. The Atanasoff-Berry...

John Atanasoff is recognized as the first designer of an electronic digital computer. He was born in Hamilton, New York, into a family of mathematicians. His father was an electrical engineer, his mother a mathematics teacher. Atanasoff was raised in...

1903-1995 American Inventor, Physicist and Mathematician It is impossible to imagine a world without computers. Computers control nearly every facet of our lives, from car air bags to airplanes, schools, businesses, and space shuttles. None of these...

John Vincent Atanasoff (Bulgarian: Джон Винсент Атанасов, Dzhon Vinsent Atanasov) (October 4,1903 – June 15,1995) was an American physicist. The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of...

John Vincent Atanasoff, scientist and engineer: born Hamilton, New York 4 October 1903; instructor in mathematics and physics, Iowa State university 1930-42; scientist, Naval Ordnance Laboratory 1942-52; founder, Ordnance Engineering Corp 1952; founder, Cybernetics Inc 1961; died 15 June 1995. In October 1973...

John V. Atanasoff, 91, who invented the first electronic computer in 1939 and later saw others take credit for his discovery, died of a stroke June 15 at his home in Monrovia, Md. Dr. Atanasoff, whose pioneering work ultimately was acknowledged during lengthy...