Jane Smiley Discusses John Atanasoff
Duration: 58:27 (Full Program)
Program:
Intelligent Talk Television #218
Broadcast Date: Mar. 27, 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley has written on such topics as politics, impulse buying, farming and marriage. She now adds to that list: John Atanasoff, the Iowa State University physics professor credited with inventing the first digital electronic computer.
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