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 ...

A good way to start a virtual fistfight among technology historians is to ask them to name the first digital electronic computer. Many would undoubtedly mention the University of Pennsylvania’s ENIAC, ...

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Who invented the digital computer? Depending on your definition, mathematical pioneers such as John von Neumann or Alan Turing might spring to mind, but its origin lies with US physicist John ...

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Who invented the computer? For anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the University of Pennsylvania and seen the shrine to the ENIAC, the answer may seem obvious: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., ...

"The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer" by Jane Smiley; Doubleday (256 pages, $25.95) Neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates invented the computer, despite the ...

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Ask most people who invented the light bulb, the airplane, or telephone and you will get an immediate answer: Edison, the Wright brothers, Bell. Ask them who invented the computer and you will get a ...