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George Stibitz

American Bell Labs researcher; one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer (1904-1995) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 90

George Robert Stibitz was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.

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1995Died31 January 19951983National Inventors Hall of FameAward1977IEEE Emanuel R. Piore AwardAward1965Harry H. Goode Memorial AwardAward1904Born20 April 1904

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