- Speaker:
Gordon Bell
- Time
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Thursday, Oct 30, 2003 at 7:30 pm
- Location
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Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free
Computer pioneer Gordon Bell is a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the Smithsonian/MCI Information Technology Leadership Award for Innovation and is now a senior researcher at Microsoft. He will include a rare filmed presentation of John Vincent Atanasoff discussing his invention of the first digital computer.
Comments will also be provided by John Gustafson, principal investigator, High Productivity Computing Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Alice Rowe Burks, author of "Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History;" Bulgarian Deputy Ambassador Emil Yalnazov; and Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy.