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	John Vincent Atanasoff
		John Vincent Atanasoff is the first son of John Atanasoff and Iva Lucena Purdy.
		John Vincent read the instructions on how to use the slide rule, and he became more interested in the mathematical principles of the slide rule.
		John Vincent Atanasoff was a genius with such a vision.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/do_Atanasoff.html (1398 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Vincent Atanasoff changed the way modern life is lived by building the first electronic digital computer while teaching at Iowa State University.
		Atanasoff, one of John and Iva Purdy Atanasoff's eight children, was born in Hamilton, N.Y., and grew up in Florida, where his father, an immigrant from Bulgaria, was an electrical engineer.
		Atanasoff, known as "J.V." to his friends, was called to work for the government in Washington, D.C., in World War II and never returned to his teaching post.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/atanasoff.html (302 words)

	Who was John Atanasoff? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Atanasoff was a prominent American inventor who took pride in his Bulgarian heritage and maintained strong ties to his ancestral home of Bulgaria.
		John Atanasoff's father, Ivan Atanasoff, was born in the village of Boyadjick, Bulgaria.
		John Vincent Atanasoff was born in the town of Hamilton, New York on October 4, 1903.
	tangra.bitex.com /eng/atanasoff/who_is.htm (672 words)

	John Atanasoff Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		John Atanasoff (1903-1995) was a pioneer in the field of computer science.
		John Vincent Atanasoff was born on October 4, 1903, in Hamilton, New York.
		Atanasoff became interested in calculating devices at an early age--he began studying his father's slide rule when he was only nine, and read technical books on mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-atanasoff (782 words)

	Computing People: John Atanasoff
		John Vincent Atanasoff, born on 4 October 1903 in Hamilton, New York the first child of John Atanasoff and Iva Lucena Purdy took an early interest in mathematics.
		Atanasoff had hoped to pursue a patent for his computer, but with the onset of World War II he was called to Washington to do physics research for the Navy.
		John Vincent Atanasoff died 15 June 1995 of a stroke at his home in Monrovia, Md. He was 91 years old, the true inventor of the digital electronic computer.
	www.angelfire.com /ma/kilenm/2k03ppl.html (1176 words)

	John V. Atanasoff: Obituary
		Dr. Atanasoff, whose pioneering work ultimately was acknowledged during lengthy patent litigation in the 1970s, never made money off his invention, which was the first computer to separate data processing from memory.
		The Atanasoff prototype finally was recognized as the father of modern computing when, in a patent infringement case Sperry Rand brought against Honeywell, a federal judge voided Sperry Rand's patent on the ENIAC, saying it had been derived from Dr. Atanasoff's invention.
		Atanasoff, whose father was born in Bulgaria, also was awarded Bulgaria's highest science award and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
	archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk /other/museums/computing/atanasoff.html (1168 words)

	John Vincent Atanasoff
		John Vincent Atanasoff was born on October 4, 1903 a few miles west of Hamilton, New York.
		John was a brother to Ethelyn, Margaret, Theodore, Avis, Raymond, Melva, and Irving.
		In 1974 John was asked to be the guest of honor and grand marshall at the annual Veisha celebration.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /99_00/PK/ja.htm (736 words)

	FAQ server : Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That same year, Dr. Atanasoff tried to interest Remington Rand in his invention, saying he believed it could lead to a "computing machine which will perform all the operations of the standard tabulators and many more at much higher speeds," but the company turned him down.
		Dr. Atanasoff had hoped to file a patent for his computer, but he was called away to Washington at the start of World War II to do physics research for the Navy.
		John Vincent Atanasoff was born in Hamilton, N.Y. He was an electrical engineering graduate of the University of Florida and received a master's degree in mathematics from Iowa State University, where he taught for 15 years.
	www1.cs.columbia.edu /~radev/cgi-bin/faqserver.cgi?atanasoff2 (1036 words)

	Intl Symposium To Honor Atanasoff, Computer's Inventor
		John Vincent Atanasoff, the father of the digital computer and an ISU alum (MS ’26 mathematics) and former professor, was born 100 years ago on Oct. 4, and Iowa State is celebrating his birthday.
		The story of Atanasoff and his invention has begun to take on the polished patina of a cherished legend, but such has not always been the case.
		But the lawsuit proved that Atanasoff was indeed the father of the electronic digital computer, and the United States and Iowa State honored him for his invention in 1974.
	www.taborcommunications.com /hpcwire/hpcwireWWW/03/1031/106295.html (913 words)

	eniac's 50th Anniversary: The Birth of the Information Age -- A Short History of the Second American Revolution by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atanasoff and IBM were limited by the available funds, whereas Bletchly Park and the Moore School tapped into the immense resources for research and development resulting from the war effort.
		John Mauchly's interest in calculating machines was associated with a dream he had of solving "the problem of the weather," an interest his father had shared during his lifetime working on similar problems at Carnegie Institute of Washington.
		With the approval of John Grist Brainerd, who chaired an important faculty committee, Goldstine presented Mauchly's concept to his superior and arrangements were made for a presentation to the head of the BRL and its chief scientist, Oswald Veblen.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v42/n18/eniac.html (5052 words)

	John Vincent Atanasoff (1905 - 1995)
		John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, decided - almost against his better judgement - to base his version of a computer on the binary system.
		Atanasoff was convinced that the two digit binary system - with its benefit of reducing ten symbols to two in his machine's circuitry - would increase speed and efficiency, but he was concerned that users might be confused by the transition from the familiar decimal system.
		The machine designed and built by Atanasoff and a young engineering student, Clifford Berry, by 1942, was capable of solving differential equations using binary math, although it couldn't be programmed and had no central processing unit.
	www.kerryr.net /pioneers/atanasoff.htm (338 words)

	John Atanasoff
		In the speech Atanasoff was called the "electronic Prometheus," since he gave birth to the field of digital computing - an invention that in just a few years affected the lives of almost all people around the globe.
		Hayes, who is currently in Sofia to attend celebrations of the 100th birth anniversary of computer inventor John Atanasoff, and Vassilev discussed the possibility for Bulgarian students to undergo training at Microsoft.
		John Atanasoff, who is son of a Bulgarian immigrant from Bulgaria's village of Boyadjik in the Yambol Region, built the world's first electronic digital computer at US Iowa State University during 1937-42 together with his assistant Clifford Berry.
	www.johnatanasoff.com /anniversary.php (577 words)

	Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JOHN VINCENT ATANASOFF was born on 4 October 1903 a few miles west of Hamilton, New York.
		Atanasoff regarded this machine as having the same flaws as other analog devices, where accuracy was dependent upon the performance of other parts of the machine.
		Atanasoff left Ames, Iowa, on leave from Iowa State for a defense-related position at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He left the task of completing the patenting of the ABC to university officials.
	www.scl.ameslab.gov /ABC/Biographies.html (2711 words)

	Amazon.com: The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story: Books: Alice R. Burks,Arthur W. Burks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John V. Atanasoff, assisted by graduate student Clifford Berry, conceived and built a partially electronic computer, stopping work in 1942 before it was fully operational.
		John Mauchly was delighted to meet Atanasoff, who attended one of his lectures and came up to talk to him later.
		John always told the ENIAC Women that it was general purpose and he always tried to get us to try to program a matrix inversion.
	www.amazon.com /First-Electronic-Computer-Atanasoff-Story/dp/0472081047 (1977 words)

	News
		John V. Atanasoff, an Iowa State professor of physics and mathematics, and Clifford Berry, a graduate student, built the computer.
		Atanasoff's goal was to produce a machine that would lighten the load on his students, who at that time solved such equations through a tedious process using a mechanical calculator.
		Atanasoff was given the National Medal of Technology in 1990 by President George Bush in recognition of his pioneering work in computing.
	www.iastate.edu /news/releases/97/abcshow10.08.html (1278 words)

	John Vincent Atanasoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Atanasoff (a-ta-NA-soff) was raised in Brewster, Florida, the son of an electrical engineer.
		John Atanasoff met John Mauchly at the December 1940 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, where Mauchly was demonstrating his "harmonic analyzer".
		Atanasoff's father Ivan had immigrated in 1889 from Bulgaria at the age of 13.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff (1513 words)

	John Atanasoff Biography \| World of Invention
		John Atanasoff is recognized as the first designer of an electronic digital computer.
		Atanasoff was raised in Florida, and he loved science and engineering as a child.
		Atanasoff determined to improve computing machines so it would be easier for his graduate students to perform mathematical calculations.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-atanasoff-woi (331 words)

	John Atanasoff (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the past century, one of the highest peaks in that respect was John Atanasoff, the inventor of the first electronic computer in the world.
		However the big breakthrough was made by John Atanasoff who abandoned mechanics and designed electronic circuits for calculating by use of a binary system of numbers.
		The principles of John Atanasoff's computer, though seemingly outdated today, are the basis of the thousands of millions of computers, without which modern society cannot exist.
	tangra.bitex.com.cob-web.org:8888 /eng/atanasoff/gordost.htm (314 words)

	FAQ server : Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Subject: The inventor of the modern digital computer - of Bulgarian origin The name John Atanasoff is not very well known but this is the man who has created the modern digital computer.
		ENIAC was built at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Eckert.
		John Atanasoff was born in Hamilton, New York in 1903.
	www1.cs.columbia.edu /~radev/cgi-bin/faqserver.cgi?atanasoff (381 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION- John V. Atanasoff: 1998 Cosmic Player Plate
		Atanasoff's achievement made it obvious that the electronic computer would be useful in hundreds of ways.
		John Vincent Atanasoff was born in New York.
		Atanasoff spent 15 years teaching at Iowa State University and in the early 1940s, during World War Two, he went to Washington, D.C. His work with the digital computer was put aside in Washington when he began working at the Naval Ordnance Lab in White Oak, Maryland.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /atanaso8.html (489 words)

	News Releases: Iowa State University
		The endowment is being established with an estate gift from John Atanasoff II, whose father, John Vincent Atanasoff (along with graduate student Clifford Berry) invented the world's first electronic digital computer at Iowa State between 1939 and 1942.
		John Vincent Atanasoff was a former physics and math professor at Iowa State, and received his master's degree in mathematics from ISU in 1926.
		President Geoffroy thanked John Atanasoff II and his family for their gift, which will enhance Iowa State's future academic programs through an endowed faculty position, fellowships or scholarships.
	www.iastate.edu /~nscentral/releases/2003/oct/atanasoff.shtml (259 words)

	John Vincent Atanasoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Vincent Atanasoff was born near Hamilton, New York on October the 4th 1903.
		John Vincent was the first child John Atanasoff, an electrical engineer, and a mathematic teacher Iva Lucena Purdy.
		John Vincent Atanasoff died of a stroke on June the 15th 1995.
	www.csulb.edu /~cwallis/wallis/computability/atanasoff.html (818 words)

	The Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Atanasoff was excited about the project in which he could establish clearly that sketches, ideas, and plans he had made available to Mauchly in June 1941 could be used to construct a prototype electronic digital computer.
		Atanasoff was then asked to identify an 18 May 1939 letter from Professor E. Lindstrom notifying Atanasoff of the $650 research grant and Atanasoff's 23 May 1939 reply thanking Professor Linstrom.
		By the end of Atanasoff's testimony, Halladay had established that the date on the green-covered booklet on that Atanasoff Berry Computer was 14 August 1940, and there was no doubt in Atanasoff's mind that "the date of the conception, the roadhouse event" was the winter of 1937-38 rather than the winter of 1938-39.
	www.scl.ameslab.gov /ABC/Trial.html (3345 words)

	John Atanasoff Biography \| World of Computer Science
		John Atanasoff was a pioneer in the field of computer science.
		John Vincent Atanasoff was born on October 4, 1903, in Hamilton, New York, the son of Ivan (John) Atanasoff, a Bulgarian immigrant who worked as a mining engineer, and an American mother, a teacher.
		After his retirement, Atanasoff worked on a variety of inventions; among his completed invention is a phonetic alphabet for computers.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-atanasoff-wcs (723 words)

	Department of Computer Science: Iowa State University
		It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42.
		Clark Mollenhoff in his book, Atanasoff, Forgotten Father of the Computer, details the design and construction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer with emphasis on the relationships of the individuals.
		In recognition of his achievement, Atanasoff was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George Bush at the White house on November 13, 1990.
	www.cs.iastate.edu /jva/jva-archive.shtml (260 words)

	Atanasoff: Inventor, Problem-Solver, And Inventor of the Real Computer
		John V. Atanasoff, II sees his father's invention as ranking so high in importance that it may not yet be fully understood.
		Atanasoff ultimately was recognized as the true father of the electronic digital computer, because -- while he was busy with other things -- a major corporation took another one to court.
		John Atanasoff II, is president of Cybernetics Products, Inc. of New Jersey, which works in high-resolution (eight to ten thousand lines) film special effects, and of Advanced Technology Industries, computerizing routing devices for, among other things, printed circuits.
	www.intercom.net /local/shore_journal/joc10225.html (1796 words)

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