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30/04/1904 American physicist George Stibitz is born

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Stibitz is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first 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. In Boolean logic, the values of the variables are just true or false.
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