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Eckert, J. Presper, Jr. 19191995 Mauchly, John W. 19071980: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences by James E. Tomayko, 2002
Computer Designers: Alan Turing, John Von Neumann, Steve Wozniak, Seymour Cray, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Butler Lampson
J. Presper Eckert, Jr.: An entry from Gale's Science and Its Times
Computer Hardware Engineers: Douglas Engelbart, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, Martin Brennan, Chuck Peddle, Lynn Conway, Voja Antonic
The history of computing: A biographical portrait of the visionaries who shaped the destiny of the computer industry by Marguerite Zientara, 1981
John Presper Eckert Jr.: An entry from Gale's Science and Its Times by Nathan L. Ensmenger, 2001
Early Pioneers: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences by Pamela Willwerth Aue, 2002
John William Mauchly: An entry from Gale's Science and Its Times by Nathan L. Ensmenger, 2001
ENIAC Progress Report: An entry from Gale's American Decades: Primary Sources
Early Computers: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences by Ida M. Flynn, 2002

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UNIVAC - J Presper Eckert And John Mauchly
The UNIVAC the first commercially available computer invented by J presper eckert and John Mauchly. J presper eckert and John Mauchly, after leaving the academic environment of The Moore School
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Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Inventors Home ... Industrial Revolution zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Famous Inventions Famous Inventors Black Inventors Women Inventors ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Inventors newsletter. Search Inventors Inventors of the Modern Computer The History of the UNIVAC Computer - J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly Inventors of the Modern Computer Series Table of Contents The Unisys History Newsletter- six articles covering the history and technical data of the UNIVAC. The Paul Revere of Computers - an excellent essay on the business history of the UNIVAC. The UNIVAC flow chart and pictures of the UNIVAC computer. By Mary Bellis The Universal Automatic Computer or UNIVAC was a computer milestone achieved by Dr. Presper Eckert and Dr. John Mauchly, the team that invented the ENIAC computer.
J. Presper Eckert - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
J. presper eckert. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John prespereckert, a computer pioneer, was born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia
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Extractions: John Presper Eckert , a computer pioneer, was born April 9 in Philadelphia and died June 3 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Together with John W. Mauchly he constructed the ENIAC , sometimes considered the first digital computer (but see John Vincent Atanasoff for conflicting claims), from . Mauchly concentrated on the overall design while Eckert constructed the electronic circuits. Both Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania in October . They started up the Electronic Control Company which built the Binary Automatic Computer ( BINAC ). One of the major advances of this machine, which was used from August , was that data was stored on magnetic tape rather than on punched cards Electronic Control Company soon became the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and it received an order from the National Bureau of Standards to build the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). In , Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation ran into financial troubles and was acquired by Remington Rand Corporation. The UNIVAC I was finished in December Eckert remained with Remington Rand and became an executive within the company. He continued with Remington Rand as it merged with the Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys in
John W. Mauchly And J. Presper Eckert
19071980) J. prespers eckert. 1919-1995) Table of Contents. I Claim to Fame. II Research/Career highlights. III Trivia. IV Bibliography. I Claim to Fame. John W. Mauchly and J. Mauchly and J. presper eckert were the two principle inventors of the ENIAC computer the first large-scale general
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Extractions: J. Prespers Eckert Table of Contents John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert were the two principle inventors of the ENIAC computer,the first large-scale general-purpose electronic computer. ENIAC is an acronym for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer," built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.As a general-purpose computer to solve a wide range of calculations,this distinguished the ENIAC from earlier automated calculating machines designed for single problem-solving applications.They began the ENIAC in 1943 and completed the ENIAC in 1946.
Eckert_John
J presper eckert Jr. attended the William Penn Carter School in Germanstown.In 1937, after graduating from school, he entered the
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Extractions: J Presper Eckert Jr. attended the William Penn Carter School in Germanstown. In 1937, after graduating from school, he entered the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania from where he graduated in 1941. Eckert, an outstanding electrical engineering student, was given a post as an instructor at the Moore School soon after his graduation. The Moore School was by this time heavily involved with research specifically directed towards the war effort. Eckert taught a defence course at the Moore School and one of his students on the course was John Mauchly . It might seem strange that Mauchly , who was twelve years older than Eckert, should be his student. Mauchly was already an established academic teaching physics but he became involved in defence training as part of his contribution to the war effort. Eckert quickly became interested in Mauchly's ideas for the development of computers and for a while the two discussed these ideas frequently. Soon, however, Eckert moved on to undertake other military work at the School. Ashurst [2] relates how Eckert was:- .... eventually involved with work on ultraviolet light and the development of the means to measure metal fatigue. Later, he went on to develop a method for measuring small magnetic fields to be used in detecting marine mines. He then went on to work on the electronics of radar and target locating and following equipment; these devices played a decisive part in weaponry, and their development and construction was considered to be of the very highest priority.
Eckert_John
Biography of J presper eckert (19191995) J presper eckert Jr. attended the William Penn Carter School in Germanstown from where he graduated in 1941. eckert, an outstanding electrical engineering student, was given a post
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Extractions: J Presper Eckert Jr. attended the William Penn Carter School in Germanstown. In 1937, after graduating from school, he entered the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania from where he graduated in 1941. Eckert, an outstanding electrical engineering student, was given a post as an instructor at the Moore School soon after his graduation. The Moore School was by this time heavily involved with research specifically directed towards the war effort. Eckert taught a defence course at the Moore School and one of his students on the course was John Mauchly . It might seem strange that Mauchly , who was twelve years older than Eckert, should be his student. Mauchly was already an established academic teaching physics but he became involved in defence training as part of his contribution to the war effort. Eckert quickly became interested in Mauchly's ideas for the development of computers and for a while the two discussed these ideas frequently. Soon, however, Eckert moved on to undertake other military work at the School. Ashurst [2] relates how Eckert was:- .... eventually involved with work on ultraviolet light and the development of the means to measure metal fatigue. Later, he went on to develop a method for measuring small magnetic fields to be used in detecting marine mines. He then went on to work on the electronics of radar and target locating and following equipment; these devices played a decisive part in weaponry, and their development and construction was considered to be of the very highest priority.
References For Eckert_John
References for J presper eckert. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. P Eckstein,J presper eckert, Annals of the history of computing 18, (1996), 2544.
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Interview With J. Presper Eckert
J.presper eckert (JPE) You know, when we were mad at this and couldn t get somethingto work, we used to call it the maniac. Interface with human beings
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Extractions: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Peter Vogt February 2, 1988 David Allison (DKA): Let's go back to 1943 and the circumstances that surrounded the invention of this machine. How do you remember the environment? JPE: I don't know what you mean when you say how do I remember the environment. DKA: Was it a pressured environment? How was the problem originally presented to you? Peter Vogt: Why did they stop you? What was important about it that they put you on to? Set the stage for us. JPE: What happened is that during World War II, a number of large guns, field pieces, were sent over to Africa. Tables were sent with them, telling them where to set the dials on the gun to allow for the amount of wind blowing and the height of the elevation of the target, with the expectation that the shell would land where you wanted it to when you followed the prescription in the book. The shells did not land where you wanted them to. The people down there using these guns were having to make guesswork corrections on the tables to hit anything, not very satisfactory in the middle of a war. The trouble was traced to the fact that the ground was more resilient in Africa, due to the type of vegetational growth in the jungle.
Perspectives Of The Smithsonian: Smithsonian Computer History
J. presper eckert Interview with J. presper eckert, Co-Inventor of the ENIAC (ElectricalNumerical Integrator and Computer) From Development of the Eniac
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Extractions: Exhibitions Many important objects from the Computer History Collection are on exhibition in Information Age: People, Information and Technology , a 14,000 square foot display on the first floor of the National Museum of American History. Opened in May 1990, the exhibition surveys the history of information technology and its relation to society from the origin of the telegraph to the present. The display has over 900 original artifacts. They include Samuel Morse's telegraphs, Alexander Bell's telephones, a Hollerith punched card machine, a 4-rotor German ENIGMA encoder used during World War II, the ENIAC computer, the TELESTAR test satellite, an automotive welding robot, a selection of early personal computers, and digital high definition television. With 50 interactive computer and video display, Information Age is also the Smithsonian's most interactive exhibition. Theme Information Age centers on the technical evolution of electrical and electronic information technology. The telegraph began a revolution in communications by transmitting information in electrical form instantly to distant locations. This new phenomenon of instant information was later expanded by the telephone, radio and television. Then the digital electronic computer made it possible to process information instantly. As the computer developed and matured, communication and processing technologies were joined into networks that now stretch around the world, affecting all areas of global society.
J. Presper Eckert, Jr. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Cite this article. J. presper eckert, Jr. born April 9, 1919, Philadelphia, Pa MLA style " J. presper eckert, Jr.." Encyclopædia Britannica
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Page On Dr. J. Presper Eckert
A Tribute to. Dr. J. presper eckert. CoInventor of ENIAC. Home. Background. The Past Year and a Half. Pres'sChildhood. The Moore School. The eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Awards. Cool Stuff .
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Extractions: A Tribute to Dr. J. Presper Eckert Co-Inventor of ENIAC AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Home Background The Past Year and a Half Pres's ... Contact The Charmed Life This picture of the 16 month old J. Presper Eckert was taken on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey sometime in August of 1920. It looks like Pres, as his family called him was having a great time with his little sand shovel and bucket. Twenty five and a half years later, on February 14, 1946 the world would change forever when he and his partner, John Mauchly unveiled ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and demonstrated for the first time the power and the promise of the electronic computer. It's one of the many amazing photos of Pres as a child I came across while organizing and documenting the items in this extraordinary collection. This site was originally created to present some of the more interesting items that were sold at auction. Artifacts and ephemera related to Dr. J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC and the early years of the computer industry were auctioned by Skinner, Inc.
Presper Eckert And John Mauchly - ENIAC And UNIVAC Computers
EDVAC In August 1944, John Mauchly and J presper eckert proposed the building ofa new machine called the electronic discrete variable automatic computer or
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Eckert, J Presper, Jr. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
To cite this page MLA style eckert, J presper, Jr.. Encyclopædia Britannica.2004. APA style eckert, J presper, Jr.. Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Penn Special Collections-Mauchly Exhibition Introduction
this credit would have to be shared with J. presper eckert (19191995), who at the time of of ENIAC's architecture, it was eckert who possessed the engineering skills to
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Extractions: The year 1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the ENIAC computer, the first large-scale general-purpose electronic computer. Built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, ENIAC is an acronym for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer," but its birth lay in World War II as a classified military project known only as Project PX. The ENIAC is important historically, because it laid the foundations for the modern electronic computing industry. More than any other machine, the ENIAC demonstrated that high-speed digital computing was possible using the then-available vacuum tube technology.
J. Presper Eckert, Jr. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
eckert, J. presper, Jr. Encyclopædia Britannica Article. 100 Encyclopædia Britannicaarticles, from the full 32 volume encyclopedia. , eckert, J. presper, Jr.
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J. Presper Eckert
presper eckert, John W. Mauchly and ENIAC (Continued) Calculating ballistic results was creating a bottleneck and John Mauchly proposed the construction of an electronic computer to eliminate this bottleneck. Mauchly's ideas was a young electronic engineer named, John presper eckert. After several attempts to get this proposal
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Extractions: Calculating ballistic results was creating a bottleneck and John Mauchly proposed the construction of an electronic computer to eliminate this bottleneck. The person most taken by Mauchly's ideas was a young electronic engineer named, John Presper Eckert. After several attempts to get this proposal accepted by the BRL, they finally received the okay in 1943. ENIAC was Eckert and Mauchly's project. Eckert was the engineer, Mauchly was the visionary. Eckert recruited the top graduate students from the Moore School. Engineers were each assigned a space at a worktable that ran around the backroom of the school, while assemblers and wiremen occupied central floor space. Problems and dead-ends occurred so in 1944, John von Neummann was brought in as a consultant. Next Page
The Charmed Life
Dr. J. presper eckert. This picture of the 16 month old J. presper eckert was takenon the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey sometime in August of 1920.
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Extractions: A Tribute to Dr. J. Presper Eckert Co-Inventor of ENIAC AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Home Background The Past Year and a Half Pres's ... Contact The Charmed Life This picture of the 16 month old J. Presper Eckert was taken on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey sometime in August of 1920. It looks like Pres, as his family called him was having a great time with his little sand shovel and bucket. Twenty five and a half years later, on February 14, 1946 the world would change forever when he and his partner, John Mauchly unveiled ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and demonstrated for the first time the power and the promise of the electronic computer. It's one of the many amazing photos of Pres as a child I came across while organizing and documenting the items in this extraordinary collection. This site was originally created to present some of the more interesting items that were sold at auction. Artifacts and ephemera related to Dr. J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC and the early years of the computer industry were auctioned by Skinner, Inc.
Eckert Childhood
A Tribute to. Dr. J. presper eckert. CoInventor of ENIAC. Home. Background. The Past Year and a Half. Pres'sChildhood. The Moore School. The eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Awards. Cool Stuff .
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Extractions: A Tribute to Dr. J. Presper Eckert Co-Inventor of ENIAC AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Home Background The Past Year and a Half Pres's ... Contact J. Presper Eckert's Childhood Pres Eckert was born on April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia. He was the only son of a prominent real estate developer and contractor and grew up in the Germantown section of town. He was christened by Russell H. Conwell, the charismatic Northern Baptist minister, founder of Temple University and author of the famous "Acres of Diamonds" motivational speech. His father consulted on construction projects in America and Europe combining business trips with family vacations, usually in the summer. By the time he was twelve years old Pres had traveled over 125,000 miles, visiting all 48 states, Alaska, most of Europe's great cities, and Egypt. As a result the collection includes many photos of Pres as a child in exotic locations and with some famous individuals. Pres went to The Penn Charter school in Germantown and developed a reputation as a math wiz and electronic genius at an early age as a result of his tinkering with radios and other electronic devices. An early radio he built as a child is included in the collection. If you are interested in reading a detailed account of Pres' upbringing and family background there is a wonderful article written by Peter Eckstein and published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996
Eckert Childhood
A Tribute to. Dr. J. presper eckert. CoInventor of ENIAC. J. presper eckert sChildhood. Pres eckert was born on April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia.
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Extractions: A Tribute to Dr. J. Presper Eckert Co-Inventor of ENIAC AAAAAAAAAAAAAA Home Background The Past Year and a Half Pres's ... Contact J. Presper Eckert's Childhood Pres Eckert was born on April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia. He was the only son of a prominent real estate developer and contractor and grew up in the Germantown section of town. He was christened by Russell H. Conwell, the charismatic Northern Baptist minister, founder of Temple University and author of the famous "Acres of Diamonds" motivational speech. His father consulted on construction projects in America and Europe combining business trips with family vacations, usually in the summer. By the time he was twelve years old Pres had traveled over 125,000 miles, visiting all 48 states, Alaska, most of Europe's great cities, and Egypt. As a result the collection includes many photos of Pres as a child in exotic locations and with some famous individuals. Pres went to The Penn Charter school in Germantown and developed a reputation as a math wiz and electronic genius at an early age as a result of his tinkering with radios and other electronic devices. An early radio he built as a child is included in the collection. If you are interested in reading a detailed account of Pres' upbringing and family background there is a wonderful article written by Peter Eckstein and published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996
J. Presper Eckert
J. presper eckert. John presper eckert, a computer pioneer, was born April9, 1919 in Philadelphia and died June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index John Presper Eckert , a computer pioneer, was born April 9 in Philadelphia and died June 3 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Together with John W. Mauchly he constructed the ENIAC , sometimes considered the first digital computer (but see John Vincent Atanasoff for conflicting claims), from . Mauchly concentrated on the overall design while Eckert constructed the electronic circuits. Both Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania in October . They started up the Electronic Control Company which built the Binary Automatic Computer ( BINAC ). One of the major advances of this machine, which was used from August , was that data was stored on magnetic tape rather than on punched cardss Electronic Control Company soon became the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and it received an order from the National Bureau of Standards to build the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). In , Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation ran into financial troubles and was acquired by Remington Rand Corporation. The UNIVAC I was finished in December Eckert remained with Remington Rand and became an executive within the company. He continued with Remington Rand as it merged with the Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys in

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