John Vincent Atanasoff

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John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4,1903 – June 15,1995) was a prominent American computer engineer of Bulgarian origin. His work was instrumental in the development of the digital computer with Clifford E. Berry and called the Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC).

Atanasoff received his BS from the University of Florida and his MS at ISU. Upon completion of his doctorate in 1930 at the University of Wisconsin, Atanasoff accepted an assistant professorship at Iowa State College in mathematics and physics where he went on to create the ABC a decade later.

[edit] See also

• Atanasoff Hall
• Atanasoff Museum
• Historic marker#Birthplace of the Computer
• Project Vincent

[edit] News articles

• The article, Atanasoff dies, in the 06/20, 1995 edition of the Iowa State Daily is still unavailable due to a change in the Daily's website and general laziness of Rofflehaus contributors. If you'd like to help fix a broken link like this, check out Template talk:ISUD to find out how. Thank you for your patience. (D: 06/20/1995)

[edit] External links

• John Vincent Atanasoff at wikipedia
• Biography by the Scalable Computing Laboratory at Ames Laboratory