<Li> election to the National Academy of Engineering, 1981 </Li> <Li> election to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1985 </Li> <P> Stibitz held 38 patents, in addition to those he earned at Bell Labs . He became a member of the faculty at Dartmouth College in 1964 to build bridges between the fields of computing and medicine, and retired from research in 1983 . </P> <P> In his later years, Stibitz "turned to non-verbal uses of the computer". Specifically, he used a Commodore - Amiga to create computer art . In a 1990 letter, written to the department chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science department of Denison University he said: </P>

Who is internationally recognised as a father of the modern digital computer