George Stibitz

Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope

Name: George Robert Stibitz

Born: April 20, 1904, in York, Pennsylvania USA

Death: January 31, 1995 (Age: 91)

Computer-related contributions

Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer.
In 1937, he built a digital machine called the Model K, which was based on relays, flashlight bulbs, and metal strips cut from tin cans.
He was the first to demonstrate using a computing machine remotely over a phone line.
Stibitz used a teletype to send commands to the Complex Number Calculator in New York over telephone lines.
He is also known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.