The man who invented the computer the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer

Main Author:	Smiley, Jane.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Doubleday, c2010.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Atanasoff, John V. > (John Vincent) Sperry Rand Corporation > History > 20th century. Computer scientists > Biography. Inventors > United States > Biography. Physicists > Biography. College teachers > Biography. Electronic digital computers > History > 20th century. Patents > United States > History > 20th century. Intellectual property > United States > History > 20th century.

Physical Description:	246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.
ISBN:	9780385527132 : 0385527136
Author Notes:	Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)