site.btaScholarly Session Marks John Atanasoff's 120th Birth Anniversary

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) will mark the 120th birth anniversary of John Atanasoff, creator of the first digital electronic computer, with a scholarly session on October 4. The event will take place at 4 p.m. in the Prof. Marin Drinov Hall of BAS. 

BAS President Acad. Julian Revalski will open the session. Acad. Kiril Boyanov will present the topic "John Atanasoff - inventor of digital computing". Prof. John Gustafson, leader of the team that recreated the original Atanasoff-Berry computer, will join online to talk about his work.

The session will feature experiences shared by prominent computer science researchers and winners of the John Atanasoff Presidential Award - Svetlin Nakov, Zornitsa Kozareva, and the 2023 award winner.

The jubilee scholarly session will be broadcast online on the YouTube channel of BAS.