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Arthur Burks

American mathematician

Died when: 92 years 214 days (1111 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Arthur Burks

Arthur Walter Burks (October 13, 1915 – May 14, 2008) was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.

Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice Burks outlined their case for the subject matter of the ENIAC having been derived from John Vincent Atanasoff.

Burks was also for several decades a faculty member at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.


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