''The Man Who Invented the Computer'' is a 2010 historical biography by author
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel ''A Thousand Acres'' (1991).
Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a subu ...
about American physicist
John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa Stat ...
and the invention of the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the 1942
Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital computing device.
See also
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List of pioneers in computer science
This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.
Pioneers
~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates.
See also
* Computer Pioneer Award
* IEEE John von ...
External links
Official site''After Words'' interview with Smiley on ''The Man Who Invented the Computer'', December 27, 2010
American biographies
History books about scientific discoveries
Doubleday (publisher) books
2010 non-fiction books
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