Biography

Bibliography

Donation


John Vincent Atanasoff Resources

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Archival Collections

 

In Celebration of John Vincent Atanasoff's 100th Birthday
The International Symposium on Modern Computing
Iowa State University hosted a landmark event (October 30-November 1, 2003) to bring together leading experts to discuss what new computer technologies will have the potential to again change the world.

Donation

The collection includes books from Atanasoff's library, court papers from the trial that proved Atanasoff was the inventor of the first electronic digital computer, and notes and papers on the designs of several of his other inventions. The collection will be housed in the Special Collections Department of the Iowa State University Library.

Biography

Atanasoff, John V. Papers, 1925-1995.
Archives/Special Collections:  RS 13/20/51

Ames Laboratory--ISU (U.S. Dept. of Energy)

Biography of Atanasoff and Clifford C. Berry
Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

College of Engineering (ISU) Clifford C. Berry Biography

Dept. of Computer Science (ISU) The John Vincent Atanasoff Virtual Archive

Bibliography

Atanasoff, John Vincent. "Computing Machine for the Solution of Large Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations."  In The Origins of Digital Computers, Selected Papers, ed. Brian Randell, Chap. 7.2.  New York: Springer-Verlag, 1973.

Atanasoff, John Vincent.  "Advent of Electronic Digital Computing."  Annals of the History of Computing 6, no. 3 (1984):229-82.

Atanasoff, John Vincent.  On the dynamics of a certain type of molecule possessing spherical symmetry.  M.S. Thesis--Iowa State College, 1926.  (ISU Call Number: QA853 At16o)

Augarten, Stan.  Bit by bit: an illustrated history of computers.  New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1984.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.14 A94 1984)

Bruemmer, Bruce.  Resources for the history of computing: a guide to U.S. and Canadian records.  Minneapolis: Charles Babbage Institute, 1987.  (ISU Call Number:  SPCL QA76 A11 B78x 1987)

Burks, Alice R. and Arthur Walter.  The first electronic computer: the Atanasoff story.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.   (ISU Call Number:  QA76.5 B825 1988)

Burks, Arthur Walter.  Atanasoff and the ENIAC [sound recording-ISU lecture series], 1983  (ISU Call  Number:  Media Center, Sound 001 097)

Burks, Arthur W. and Alice R. Burks.  "The ENIAC: First General-Purpose Electronic Computer."  Annals of the History of Computing 3, no. 4 (1981): 310-89.  (Commentaires by John V. Atanasoff, John Grist Brainerd, J. Presper Eckert, Kathleen R. Mauchly, Brian Randell, and Konrad Zuse.)

Campbell-Kelly, Martin.  Computer: a history of the information machine.  New York: BasicBooks, 1996.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.176 C36 1996)

Ceruzzi, Paul E.  A history of modern computing.   Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.  (On order)

Reckoners: the prehistory of the digital computer: from relays to the stored program concent, 1935-1945.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.5 C4164 1983)

Cortada, James W.  The computer in the United States: from laboratory to market, 1930-1960.  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.   (ISU Call Number: TK7885.A5 C67 1993)

Fishman, Katherine Davis.  The computer establishment.  New York: Harper and Row, 1981.  (ISU Call Number: HD9696.C63 U51646 1981)

Honeywell, Inc., plaintiff, v. Sperry Rand Corporation and Illinois Scientific Developments, Inc., defendants [microforms]: transcript of proceedings, 1971-1973.  (ISU Call Number:                    Microforms Center: KF122.M56 H66x)

Hopper, Grace Murray.  Understanding computers.   St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1984.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.5 H67 1984)

Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich.  Landmarks in digital computing: a Smithsonian pictorial history.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.5 K47 1994)

Mollenhoff, Clark R.  Atanasoff: forgotten father of the computer.  Ames: Iowa State University Press,  1988.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.2.A75 M65 1988)

Morgan, Christopher Patrick.  Wizards and their wonders: portraits in computing.  New York: The Museum, 1997.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.5.A2 M67 1997)

Ritchie, David.  The computer pioneers: the making of the modern computer.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.  (ISU Call Number QA76.17 R58 1986)

Shurkin, Joel N.  Engines of the mind: a history of the computer.  New York: Norton, 1984.  (ISU Call Number QA76.17 S482x 1984)

Silag, William.  "The Invention of the Electronic Digital Computer at Iowa State Colege, 1930-1942."  Palimpest 64, no. 5 (1984):150-77.

Stewart, Robert M.  "The End of the ABC."   Annals of the History of Computing 6, no. 3 (1984): 317.

Williams, Michael Roy.  A history of computing technology.  Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.  (ISU Call Number: QA76.17 W56 1997)

Archival Collections (ISU)
For more information regarding these collections, please contact the Special Collections Department (515-294-6672)

Atanasoff, John V. Papers, 1925-1995.
Archives/Special Collections:  RS 13/20/51

Hansen, Henry L.  Papers, 1942-1969.
Archives/Special Collections: MS-267

Mollenhoff, Clark R.  Papers, 1968-1990.
Archives/Special Collections: MS-599

Resources

Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Computing (University of Minnesota)

History of Computing Information (U.S. Army Research Lab)

National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institute)

History of the computer
Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Chief Engineer, ENIAC

Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Related Links

The  Computer Museum

The  Virtual Museum of Computing


Editor: Tanya Zanish-Belcher (Special Collections Department)
Bibliography Assistant: Tony Bremholm (Special Collections Department)


Comments: tzanish@iastate.edu
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Revised: 17 May 2000.