Atanasoff Memorial Day

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS Akad.G.Bonchev St, bl. 8, 1113, Sofia

On November 10, 2025, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will host the Atanasoff Memorial Day event - a new initiative of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at the IMI-BAS. The organizers' ambition is to hold the event every year, thus commemorating the memory of John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995) - a computer pioneer, inventor of a model of an electronic digital computer and renowned as the "Bulgarian - father of the electronic computer", by marking the intersection of mathematics, computer calculations and complexity sciences - the fields that unite topology, geometry and machine learning in the 21st century and connect Bulgaria's intellectual heritage [...]

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