Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov will present for the first time the yearly John Atanasoff award given for special achievements in the filed of computer engineering. Photo by novinite.com archive
Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov will present for the second time the yearly John Atanasoff award given for special achievements in the filed of computer engineering.
Six Bulgarians have been nominated to run for this year's John Atanasoff Award.
The special award was set up last October for special achievements in the field of computer engineering, and named after the Bulgaria-descended man who invented the computer. It was presented for the first time in 2003.
John Atanasoff, who is son of a Bulgarian immigrant from Bulgaria's village of Boyadjik in the Yambol Region, built the world's first electronic digital computer at US Iowa State University during 1937-42 together with his assistant Clifford Berry.
Their creation incorporated several major innovations in computing including the use of binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, parallel processing and separation of memory and computing functions.