John Vincent Atanasoff

John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4,1903 – June 15,1995) was a prominent American computer engineer of Bulgarian origin. His work was instrumental in the development of the digital computer.

External links and references

• JohnAtanasoff.com
• The Atanasoff Archives at Iowa State
• Atanasoff Personal Papers at Iowa State
• Atanasoff's Obituary
• Another Biography
• Biography at Virginia Tech
• Clark R. Mollenhoff, Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer 1988, ISBN 0-8138-0032-3; (Mollenhoff was a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and lawyer)
• Alice Burks and Arthur Burks, The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story, 1988, ISBN 0472100904
• Arthur W Burks, Alice R Burks, in Annals of the History of Computing, October, 1981; (an ENIAC engineer who gave credit to Atanasoff)
• Allan R MackIntosh, "The First Electronic Computer", in Physics Today, March, 1987; (professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen acknowledges Atanasoff's precedence in a comprehensive article)