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The Man Who Invented the Computer

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By Jane Smiley

Web edition: October 22, 2010
Print edition: November 6, 2010; Vol.178 #10 (p. 30)

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The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley

The best-selling author tells a quirky tale of John Atanasoff, an Iowa physics professor who in the 1930s pursued the dream of faster calculations.

Doubleday, 2010, 256 p., $25.95.

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