The Real Father of the Computer Before modern computers existed, John Vincent Atanasoff built the first electronic digital computing machine in 1937. Years later, John Mauchly helped develop ENIAC and became widely known as a pioneer of computing. In 1973, a U.S. federal court invalidated the ENIAC patent and ruled that key concepts originated with Atanasoff. Yet most history books still spotlight the wrong name. How many inventors were erased before we even learned their stories? #HiddenHistory

Presented by Duncan Edwards Mark Dean, Scientist, Engineer Your use of today's computer may not have been possible without Mark Dean. A pioneering American computer engineer and inventor who played a critical role in developing the IBM Personal Computer in 1981, Mark holds three of its nine original patents. He led the team that created the first 1-gigahertz computer processor chip and co-invented the ISA bus, which enabled devices such as printers and monitors to connect to computers. This mont