The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...

If you've got an iPhone or a laptop or a high-powered desktop -- any computer, really -- you can thank bourbon for all of them. Bourbon and soda, in fact, because that's what Iowa State College ...

John V. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s while attending Iowa State College. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.

The story of the lone inventor who fought all his life to be recognized as the originator of one of mankind’s most significant inventions. John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer | By Jane Smiley | Doubleday | 256 pages ...

AMES, Iowa (AP) -- On a cold winter night, John Vincent Atanasoff was so frustrated by his inability to concentrate that he got in his car in Ames and drove east. By the time the Iowa State University ...

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...