The man who invented the computer: the biography of John Atanasoff . . .

Description: Though focusing on Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State where the author did her graduate work thirty-five years later, Smiley weaves together the stories of other contemporary computer pioneers--Aiken, Eckert, Flowers, Mauchley, Turing, von Neumann and Zuse--tracing how the burden of computation affected many scientific and technical questions, how the inventors gradually converged on an electronic and digital solution to those problems (rather than a mechanical or analog one), and how war-time urgency led to practical devices. Sadly but typically, this technological birth suffered complications: nearly thirty years would pass before conflicting claims for priority were finally settled in a Minnesota courtroom. Smiley, Jane [Graves] (1949-) appendices: (linear solvers, binary arithmetic, electronic switches & differential equations) by John [L.] Gustafson The man who invented the computer: the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer jacket photo (c)Associated Press jacket design by Michael J. Windsor book design by Michael Collica Publication — New York · London · Toronto · Sydney · Auckland: Doubleday · [a division of Random House, Inc. 2010]) 1st edition, 1st printing Physical — 8º silver spine lettering on black quarter-cloth over light gray paper-covered boards in pictorial brown, orange, white, black and red jacket lightly marked ex-lib [Chandler AZ public library]: title page stamp security device on rear paste-down two leaves [pp.84-6] rippled from moisture tape marks on covers else very good in near fine jacket 9½ × 6½ × 1" (24.1 × 16.5 × 2.5cm) 1lb 2oz (510gm) 10" (24cm) minimum shelving x+1-118+4l [21 plates]+119-246pp. appendices: p.207-219 end notes: p.221-228 bibliography p.229-232 index: p.233-245 IDs — ISBN: 0‑385‑52713‑6 LCCN: 2010‑18887 OCLC: 502 029 94 British Library: 015 773 072 Classification — Library of Congress: QA76.2.A75 S64 2010 Dewey: 004.092 B BISG Subject Code: bio015000 · Biography / science & technology Subjects — Atanasoff, John V. (John Vincent) Sperry Rand (Corporation)--History--20th century Patents--United States--History--20th century Intellectual property--United States--History--20th century Electronic digital computers--History--20th century College teachers--Iowa--Biography Physicists--Iowa--Biography Computer scientists--United States--Biography Inventors--United States--Biography Electronic digital computers--History--20th century Computers Engineering History Technology Biography Non-fiction.

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