Clifford Berry

INDUCTED IN THE CLASS OF 2002

Notable accomplishments:

• Designed, with John Vincent Atanasoff, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (1942)

Quotes:
“The machine succeeded rapidly because Clifford Berry had this ease in working with materials, The machine would never have gotten in the position it was without Clifford Berry’s work.” (John Vincent Atanasoff in a 1972 oral history interview with the Smithsonian Institution)

Suggested reading:
“Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer” by Clark Mollenhoff (1988)

“The Man Who Invented the Computer” by Jane Smiley (2010)

Learn more:
Clifford Berry page at Iowa State University