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Jun 27, 2018 · John Vincent Atanasoff was born on October 4, 1903, in Hamilton, New York. He was the son of Ivan (John) Atanasoff, a Bulgarian immigrant who worked as a mining engineer, and an American mother, who taught school. Atanasoff became interested in calculating devices at an early age—he began studying his father's slide rule when he was only nine ...
John Vincent Atanasoff (JVA) was born on 4 October 1903 a few miles west of Hamilton, New York. His father was a Bulgarian immigrant named Ivan Atanasov. Ivan’s name was changed to John Atanasoff by immigration officials at Ellis Island, when he arrived with an uncle in 1889. JVA’s mother was Iva Lucena Purdy, an English teacher from ...
John Vincent Atanasoff and the Birth of Electronic Digital Computing. JVA Biography. The Inventor. Global Connections. CB Biography. Operation/Purpose. John Mauchly visits jva in ames, 1941. Patent/Court Case. Reconstruction Team.
Oct 4, 2019 · – John Vincent Atanasoff [7] John Vincent Atanasoff – Early Years. John Atanasoff, of Bulgarian, French and Irish ancestry, was born on October 4, 1903 in Hamilton, New York to Ivan Atanasoff, an electrical engineer and a school teacher, who had immigrated to the United States in 1889. Atanasoff’s mother, Iva Lucena Purdy, was a teacher ...
John Vincent Atanasoff and the Birth of Electronic Digital Computing. JVA Biography. The Inventor. Global Connections. CB Biography. Operation/Purpose. John Mauchly visits jva in ames, 1941. Patent/Court Case. Reconstruction Team.
However, the first special-purpose electronic computer may actually have been invented by John Vincent Atanasoff, a physicist and mathematician at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), during 1937–42. (Atanasoff also claimed to have invented the term analog computer to describe machines such as Vannevar Bush’s Differential Analyzer.)
John Vincent Atanasoff. 1903-1995. American Inventor, Physicist and Mathematician. I t 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 modern marvels would have been possible without the work of John ...
