Arthur Walter Burks (October 13, 1915 - May 14, 2008) was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that produced ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. He and his wife Alice Burks later argued that the subject matter of ENIAC had been derived from John Vincent Atanasoff, and he was for several decades a faculty member at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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What book did Arthur Burks write about John Atanasoff and the first electronic computer?
He and Alice Rowe Burks wrote The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story in 1988.
Arthur Burks and his wife Alice Rowe Burks wrote The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story, published by the University of Michigan Press in Ann Arbor in 1988.
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Arthur Walter Burks (October 13, 1915 – May 14, 2008) was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.
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October 13, 1915
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May 14, 2008
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American mathematician
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Arthur Walter Burks
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Guggenheim Fellowship.
Wikidata P166: Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute
Wikidata P166 (award received): Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute.
Wikidata P166: Computer Pioneer Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): Computer Pioneer Award.
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