If Judge Larson had ruled the other way, in favor of the patent claim, subsequent manufacturers of computing hardware would have had to obtain a license from Sperry Rand, and the course of computing history would likely have been very ...

Traces physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff's role in the invention of the computer, describing his innovative construction of an unpatented electronic device that eased the lives of burdened scientists by performing calculations using ...

Tells of the design, construction, and subsequent controversy over the first special-purpose electronic computer

This book introduces the history of the invention of computers, including John V. Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry's Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), the Harvard Mark I, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the Electronic ...

William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account of von Neumann's many different contributions to computing.

Wonderfully written and masterfully plotted, Moo gives us a wickedly funny slice of life.