Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer (movie)
- Production country: US
- Producer: Mila Aung-Thwin , Daniel Cross
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/1/2012
- Run time: 47 min.
Movie description
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.