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 ...

“You know the story of the invention of the computer?” one character asks another midway through Jane Smiley’s best-selling 1995 novel “Moo.” The speaker, an animal scientist, dreams of striking it ...

This post originally appeared on Motherboard, Nov. 5, 2010. Contrary to what you probably believe, the first computer wasn’t Philadelphia’s 1946 ENIAC. It was the desk-size machine built by John ...

A good way to start a virtual fistfight among technology historians is to ask them to name the first digital electronic computer. Many would undoubtedly mention the University of Pennsylvania’s ENIAC, ...

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 ...

According to the video below, the inventor of the first digital computer was John V. Atanasoff. This video tells the story of Atanasoff’s work on creating the Atanasoff-Berry computer. Atanasoff ...

An engaging biography of John Atanasoff reveals the obscure origins of the computer, explains John Gilbey. Who invented the digital computer? Depending on your definition, mathematical pioneers such ...

John Atanasoff was getting nowhere. It was a bitterly cold night in 1937, and he was stuck in the physics building at Iowa State University agonising over his stalled idea for a machine to solve ...