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- 2010018887 abstract "One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description.".
- 2010018887 contributor B11759318.
- 2010018887 created "c2010.".
- 2010018887 date "2010".
- 2010018887 date "c2010.".
- 2010018887 dateCopyrighted "c2010.".
- 2010018887 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-232) and index.".
- 2010018887 description "One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description.".
- 2010018887 extent "246 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- 2010018887 identifier "9780385527132".
- 2010018887 issued "2010".
- 2010018887 issued "c2010.".
- 2010018887 language "eng".
- 2010018887 publisher "New York : Doubleday".
- 2010018887 spatial "Iowa".
- 2010018887 spatial "United States".
- 2010018887 subject "004.092 B 22".
- 2010018887 subject "Atanasoff, John V. (John Vincent)".
- 2010018887 subject "College teachers Iowa Biography.".
- 2010018887 subject "Computer scientists United States Biography.".
- 2010018887 subject "Electronic digital computers History 20th century.".
- 2010018887 subject "Intellectual property United States History 20th century.".
- 2010018887 subject "Inventors United States Biography.".
- 2010018887 subject "Patents United States History 20th century.".
- 2010018887 subject "Physicists Iowa Biography.".
- 2010018887 subject "QA76.2.A75 S64 2010".
- 2010018887 subject "Sperry Rand Corporation History 20th century.".
- 2010018887 title "The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer / Jane Smiley.".
- 2010018887 type "text".