John Vincent Atanasoff
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American computer pioneer
Why Is John Vincent Atanasoff Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Vincent Atanasoff, , was an American physicist and inventor from mixed Bulgarian-Irish origin, best known for being credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College . Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.
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