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    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...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    engine's most prescient architectural feature, conditional branching. J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly similarly were not aware of the details of Babbage's...
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    to 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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  • by 'J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by 'J. Presper Eckert'...
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    development all over the world. Moore School faculty John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert founded the first computer company, which produced the UNIVAC computer...
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  • electronic computer, the ENIAC. ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S. As a Senior Scientist at Argonne...
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    the result of multiple operations can be considered an accumulator. J. Presper Eckert refers to even the earliest adding machines of Gottfried Leibniz and...
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    computer. At that time ENIAC, that had been created by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense,[citation...
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  • computer memory was invented by JPresper Eckert in the mid-1940s for use in computers such as the EDVAC and the UNIVAC I. Eckert and John Mauchly applied for...
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  • different organizations. Looking at early computing, Alan Turing, J. Presper Eckert, and John Mauchly were considered some of the major pioneers of computer...
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  • acm.org. doi:10.1145/1458043.1458075. Retrieved 15 September 2023. "J. Presper Eckert and Pat Boone in front of Univac 422 | 102633139 | Computer History...
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    to about 80 bytes). Built under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC's development and construction...
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    cyclonic separation. George Eastman (1854–1932), U.S. – roll film J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), U.S. – ENIAC – the first general purpose programmable...
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    words (about 80 bytes). Built under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC's development and construction...
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    developed. In 1944, JPresper Eckert proposed using mercury delay-line memory in a successor to the ENIAC which would become the EDVAC. Eckert had earlier worked...
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  • critic Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation Marc Ewing...
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    computer memory came with acoustic delay-line memory, developed by J. Presper Eckert in the early 1940s. Through the construction of a glass tube filled...
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    could be stored in the same storage used for data. Independently, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, who were developing the ENIAC at the Moore School...
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  • to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Rand. In the 1973...
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    Convergent Technologies Elliott ALGOL ES7000 USAS (application) HOLMES2 J. Presper Eckert LINC 4GL MAPPER NEWP Remington Rand Robert S. Barton System Development...
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    stored-program computer had been already present in the design of J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly's ENIAC, but was initially omitted so that...
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  • 194088. Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Eckert, a co-inventor of the ENIAC, discusses...
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  • that did not include the names of the inventors: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Voronoi diagrams are named after Georgy Voronoy, who defined and studied...
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