The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) -- Was the world's first electronic computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club?
He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing. By Steve Lohr Robert H. Dennard, an engineer who invented the ...