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Conceived in 1937, the machine was built by Iowa State College mathematics and physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff with the help of graduate student Clifford Berry. It was designed only to solve systems of linear equations and was successfully tested in 1942.
Jun 11, 2024 · John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, who with his graduate student Clifford Berry developed the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC; 1937–42), a machine capable of solving differential equations using binary arithmetic and one of the first electronic digital computers.
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Nov 22, 2010 · 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...
Clifford Edward Berry (April 19, 1918 – October 30, 1963) helped John Vincent Atanasoff create the first digital electronic computer in 1939, the Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC).
John Vincent Atanasoff is known as the father of the computer. With the help of one of his students Clifford E. Berry, in Iowa State College, during the 1940s, he created the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) that was the first electronic digital computer.
A remarkable team of two scientists, John V. Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry, together invented the world's first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff came up with the concept of using the digital approach one winter night at a small tavern in Illinois."
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Professor Harold Anderson was a professor of electrical engineering and one of John Vincent Atanasoff's best friends. He was also one of the many people that was impressed by Clifford Berry's brilliance and capacity.
