George Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.
Stibitz was born in York, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelors degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, his masters degree from Union College in 1927, and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics in 1930 from Cornell University.
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