ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) -- Was the world's first electronic computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club?
The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...