Arthur Burks
Mathematician, Award Winner
1915 – 2008
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Who was Arthur Burks?
Arthur Walter Burks 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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- Born
- Oct 13, 1915
Duluth - Also known as
- Arthur W. Burks
- Arthur Walter Burks
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Michigan
Philosophy
( - 1941)
- PhD, University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Ann Arbor
(1946 - 2008/05/14)
- Ann Arbor
- Died
- May 14, 2008
Ann Arbor
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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