The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. The device was limited by the technology of the day. The ABC's...
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ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer. Atanasoff was born...
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Clifford Edward Berry (April 19, 1918 – October 30, 1963) was an American computer scientist who helped John Vincent Atanasoff create the first digital...
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Vincent Atanasoff conceptualized the basic tenets of what would become the world's first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC)...
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using vacuum tubes for computation, the Atanasoff–Berry computer, was demonstrated in 1939. Vacuum-tube computers were initially one-of-a-kind designs,...
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and more powerful computing machines such as the Atanasoff–Berry computer and ENIAC, the term computer came to refer to the machines rather than their...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) in 1942, the first binary electronic...
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the US, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed and tested the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) in 1942, the first...
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History of computing (redirect from The History of Computers)
December 1939 John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry completed their experimental model to prove the concept of the Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) which began...
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ENIAC (redirect from Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer)
several weeks for a human computer. For a variety of reasons – including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC), prototyped in...
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gaming computers as well with their increasing popularity with families everywhere. The first "modern" computer was made in 1942, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer...
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theorist (born 1925) 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and inventor, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (born 1903) 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald...
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the Atanasoff–Berry Computer of the late 1930s - neither John Vincent Atanasoff nor Clifford Berry worked on this machine. IAS machine Computer Music...
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politician (died 1993) 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (died 1995) 1903 – Pierre Garbay,...
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John Gustafson (scientist) (category American computer businesspeople)
first commercial computer cluster,[citation needed] measuring with QUIPS, leading the reconstruction of the Atanasoff–Berry computer, inventing the unum...
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University and Clifford Berry a former graduate under electrical engineering and physics. Together, they created the Atanasoff–Berry computer, also known as the...
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SEC (Simple Electronic Computer), and APE(X)C. The world's first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry computer, was built on the Iowa State...
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the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the 1942 Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital...
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gesture. January 15 – John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry describe the workings of the Atanasoff–Berry computer in print. January 19 – WWII: British...
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trajectories. The Colossus (1943), built by Tommy Flowers, and the Atanasoff–Berry computer (1942) used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) and binary representation...
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and he impressed it on his collaborators. Many early computers, such as the Atanasoff–Berry computer, were not reprogrammable. They executed a single hardwired...
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and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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Information Age (redirect from Computer Age)
of the first electronic computers, based on vacuum tubes, including the Z3, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, Colossus computer, and ENIAC. The invention...
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Analytical engine (category Computer-related introductions in 1837)
a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described...
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75 via Main Street. John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor who created the first binary computer, Atanasoff–Berry Computer. William Plummer Benton, Served as...
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Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995), ISU Math M.S. 1926 (see also Atanasoff–Berry Computer), inventor of the first electronic digital computer Clifford E. Berry (1918–1963)...
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Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp. (category Computer industry)
digital computer from the Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC), prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, 2. that Atanasoff should have legal recognition...
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Random-access memory (redirect from Computer RAM memory)
been used for earlier memory schemes, such as the drum of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, the Williams tube and the Selectron tube. While it offered higher...
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Binary code (redirect from Computer binary)
"excess three" code in the Complex Computer 1937: Atanasoff–Berry Computer 1938: Konrad Zuse Z1 Most modern computers use binary encoding for instructions...
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and newspapers, such as the Peerless Cookbook, Good Housekeeping, and Berry's Fruit Recipes. While Carver's was not the first American agricultural bulletin...
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