John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed...
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The Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) (March 1946 – 1950) was a computer company founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. It was incorporated...
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problems" through reprogramming. ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic...
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John Eckert may refer to: J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), American electrical engineer and computer pioneer John Eckert (musician) (born 1939), American...
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1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer...
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designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was started by their company, Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation...
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most prestigious award. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who between 1943 and 1946 collaborated on...
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Penelope. He was not related to another computer pioneer of the time, J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995). He attended the launch of Apollo 14 just before his death...
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George Nicholas Eckert (1802–1865), U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania John Eckert (musician) (born 1939), American trumpeter J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995)...
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be a stored-program computer. ENIAC inventors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, proposed the EDVAC's construction in August 1944. A contract to build...
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