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  1-4 of 4 Reviews about "John V. Atanasoff (K.2...)": Date Reviewed
  Atanasoff: forgotten father of the computer
Mollenhoff C., Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, 1988.  Type: Book (9789780813800325)

In the United States, facts about past human actions can be formally and conclusively decided in a court of law. The seventh amendment to the Constitution specifically endorses this concept for jury trials; custom and law extend it to ...

Apr 1 1989
  The first electronic computer: the Atanasoff story
Burks A., Burks A., University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988. 387 pp.  Type: Book (9780472100903), Reviews: (1 of 3)

This angry and often vicious book seems intended to destroy John W.Mauchly’s reputation as the inventor of the first electronic digitalcomputer and establish John V. Atanasoff in that heroic position.Its authors insist that t...

Apr 1 1989
  The first electronic computer: the Atanasoff story
Burks A., Burks A., University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988. 387 pp.  Type: Book (9780472100903), Reviews: (2 of 3)

Weiss makes clear his acceptance of the three major arguments of our book:that Atanasoff was the inventor of the first electronic computer; thatMauchly learned the design details of Atanasoff’s computer prior to hisand Eckert...

Apr 1 1989
  The first electronic computer: the Atanasoff story
Burks A., Burks A., University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988. 387 pp.  Type: Book (9780472100903), Reviews: (3 of 3)

The Burks’ rebuttal is like their book in tone, style, purpose,and content from which the reader may make a preliminaryjudgment as to whether my now even more strongly heldopinions, as expressed in my review, represent miscon...

Apr 1 1989
 
 
 
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