The father of the computer is John Atanasoff. He was born on October 4, 1903, in Hamilton, New York. He died on June 15, 1995, in Ames, Iowa. He was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He was best known for his work on the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC).

John Atanasoff attended the University of Iowa, where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering. In 1937, he began working on the design of the ABC, which was the first electronic digital computer. The ABC was completed in 1942, but it was not actually …