Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer
2012, English. Directed by Mila Aung-Thwin & Daniel Cross.
The story of the lone inventor who fought all his life to be recognized as the originator of one of mankind’s most significant inventions. John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, needed a better calculator that could quickly solve advanced equations and when he tried to find such a machine, realized none existed. So Atanasoff decided he must build his own calculator. Through archive material, reenactments, interviews with experts and first hand witnesses this documentary shines a light to controversy over who was the actual inventor of the computer and an unknown part of our history.
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Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer (2012) was directed by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross.