If you've got an iPhone or a laptop or a high-powered desktop -- any computer, really -- you can thank bourbon for all of them. Bourbon and soda, in fact, because that's what Iowa State College ...

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...

"The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer" by Jane Smiley; Doubleday (256 pages, $25.95) Neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates invented the computer, despite the ...

In 1941, physicist John Mauchly visited his colleague John Atanasoff at Iowa State University for a few days, during which they discussed the computer Atanasoff was working on, later called the ...

Novelist Smiley explores the story of the now mostly forgotten Atanasoff, a brilliant and engaged physicist and engineer who first dreamed of and built a computational machine that was the prototype ...

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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer | By Jane Smiley | Doubleday | 256 pages ...