John Vincent Atanasoff, an influential American physicist and inventor, is best known for his pioneering role in developing the first electronic computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). Born ...

Created by John Vincent Atanasoff, an Iowa State mathematics and physics professor, and graduate student Clifford Berry, ABC certainly had many of the features one would expect to see in a digital ...

He later married Iva Lucena, a mathematics teacher. John Vincent Atanasoff was born in the town of Hamilton, New York on October 4, 1903. After John's birth, ...

And Atanasoff was stumped. So, Smiley says, one night in 1937, he jumped in his car and started driving east from his home in Ames, Iowa, across the Mississippi River.