Arthur Walter Burks (October 13, 1915 – May 14, 2008) was an
American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the
ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Decades later, Burks and his wife
Alice Burks outlined their case for the subject matter of the ENIAC having been derived from
John Vincent Atanasoff. Burks was also for several decades a faculty member at the
University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor.