Chronicles the life of physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff, who, in the late 1930s, devised a method of using the binary number system and electrical switches to create the world's first computing device, and describes how his ideas were stolen and used by the people commonly credited with creating the computer.
year: 2010
call number/section: 920
subjects: atanasoff, john v, (john vincent), computer scientists, united states, biography, inventors, physicists, iowa, college teachers, electronic digital computers, history, 20th century