The Washington Post, November 26th, 1990
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 world, but whose recognition for it has been long and hard in coming. Atanasoff, said the program for the ceremony, was being honored "for his invention of the electronic digital computer." But if you look in many reference works, you will find the credit for inventing the first computer given to others. The truth has now prevailed, but not without a struggle that has lasted many decades. The s...
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