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It could be debated that John Vincent Atanasoff is the "father of the computer." He built the first electronic computer in 1939 to 1942 as a physics professor at Iowa State University with his graduate student Clifford Berry.

Although an electronic computer it was not programmable (i.e. it could only solve one type of problem: solutions of simultaneous equations) and the machine still had some problems that prevented it from fully reaching its performance goals when both Atanasoff and Berry left the university for war related work in early 1942.

With increasing classroom needs due to the war the university scrapped the computer (partly because it was just a little too wide to roll out the doorway of the basement room it had been built inside) and converted the room to a classroom.

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