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George Stibitz | |
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| Born | April 30, 1904 York, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 31, 1995 (aged 90) Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Union College Denison University |
| Awards | Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1965) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1977) |
George Robert Stibitz (April 30, 1904[1] – January 31, 1995)[2] was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.
- ^ Henry S. Tropp, "Stibitz, George Robert," in Anthony Ralston and Edwin D. Reilly, eds., Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 3rd ed., (New York: van Nostrand Rheinhold, 1993), pp. 1284–1286. Some accounts give April 20 as his birth date, but the Tropp citation is the most authoritative.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Dr. George Stibitz, 90, Inventor Of First Digital Computer in '40". Retrieved 2018-09-07.