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 […]