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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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Project leaders John Mauchly and J. presper eckert. More from 1946 . Projectleaders J. presper eckert and John Mauchly. More from 1951 .
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J. Presper Eckert - FOLDOC Definition
Free Online Dictionary of Computing. J. presper eckert. One of the developers ofENIAC. Biography. Related Terms person. FOLDOC Feedback. Comments or Problems.
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Who Needs Personal Computers
by J. presper eckert J. presper eckert was the chief engineer on ENIAC I. He iscurrently vicepresident and technical assistant to the president of Sperry
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Extractions: I must confess that I don't own a personal computer. I have no reason to. I suppose I could use a computer for my hobby, electronic musical instruments, and conduct research on how to generate an accurate replica of a piano note (today's electronic pianos lack warmth in their tones). But I would need a pretty fast computer to handle the sampling of a note's characteristics in a reasonable amount of time. I may just wait for the next generation of personal computers based on the 32-bit microprocessors now appearing from a number of manufacturers. We've come a long way since the day when Dr. Howard Aiken, designer of the pioneering Mark series of computers at Harvard, could say that just a half-dozen electronic machines would be enough to fulfill the world's computational needs (a statement he later retracted). On the other hand, I remember my late colleague John Mauchly talking about the importance of personal computers long before they existed. During the late 1950s I was involved in trying to build what could now be called a personal computer, probably the first such machine to fit on a desktop. We used hundreds of magnetic core amplifiers and diodes, a few transistors and tubes, and a motor-driven drum for memory storage. The same motor powered a flyprinter, which typed the computer's output onto a moving strip of paper. Unlike the first microcomputer systems, which came later, our machine included a keyboard for easy input. We figured we could sell our Desk Computer for $5,000. Some insurance firms expressed interest, but our executives just couldn't see business need for that small a computer.
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Professor Wallace J. Eckert
What contacts existed between Wallace eckert and presper eckert and JohnMauchly? eckert, Wallace J., Transcript, Systems Service Class No.
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Extractions: Photo: About 1930, Columbiana Archive. Wallace Eckert , 1902-1971. With graduate study at Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Yale, he received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1931 under Professor Ernest William Brown (1866-1938), who devoted his career to developing a theory of the motions of the moon. Best known for the lunar orbit calculations that guided the Apollo missions to the moon , Eckert was a Columbia University Astronomy Professor from 1926 to 1970, founder and Director of the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University (1937-40), Director of the US Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office (1940-45), and founder and Director of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University (1945-1966). First, foremost, and always an astronomer, Eckert drove and often oversaw the construction of increasingly powerful computing machines to solve problems in celestial mechanics, particularly to verifying, extending, and improving Brown's theory. He was one of the first to apply punched-card machines to the solution of complex scientific problems. Perhaps more significantly, he was the first to automate the process when
Programming The ENIAC
Photo, Built in 194345 at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania forthe War effort by John Mauchly and J. presper eckert (no relation to Columbia
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Extractions: Built in 1943-45 at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania for the War effort by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert (no relation to Columbia University's Wallace Eckert ) but not delivered to the Army until just after the end of the war, the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It was 150 feet wide with 20 banks of flashing lights and about 300 times faster than the Mark 1 at addition. Wallace Eckert is cited in the histories as an influence on the designers, as he was for the Mark 1. These US Army photos from the archives of the ARL Technical Library show two early programmers (Gloria Gorden and Ester Gerston) at work on the ENIAC. The ENIAC was not a stored-program computer. It was programmed by a combination of plugboard wiring (shown at the top) and three "portable function tables", shown above ( CLICK HERE and HERE for better views). Each function table has 1200 ten-way switches, used for entering tables of numbers. Note the IBM punches on the far right a bit hard to make out; better visible in this clearer but less atmospheric copy of the same photo . Franz Alt writes in Archaeology of Computers Reminiscences, 1945-47
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J. presper eckert. One of the developers of {ENIAC}. {Biography (http//wwwgroups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/ShortBiogs/E.html)}.Summary? (1995-11-14).
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Invention Of The ENIAC Computer
Fascinating facts about the invention of the ENIAC computerby John Mauchley and J. presper eckert in 1945.
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Extractions: Fascinating facts about the invention of the ENIAC Computer by John Mauchley and J. Presper Eckert in ENIAC COMPUTER In 1936 British mathematician Alan Turing proposed the idea of a machine that could process equations without human direction. The machine (now known as a Turing machine) resembled an automatic typewriter that used symbols for math and logic instead of letters. Turing intended the device to be used as a "universal machine" that could be programmed to duplicate the function of any other existing machine. Turing's machine was the theoretical precursor to the modern digital computer. In the 1930s American mathematician Howard Aiken developed the Mark I calculating machine, which was built by IBM. This electronic calculating machine used relays and electromagnetic components to replace mechanical components. In later machines, Aiken used vacuum tubes and solid state transistors (tiny electrical switches) to manipulate the binary numbers. Aiken also introduced computers to universities by establishing the first computer science program at Harvard University. Aiken never trusted the concept of storing a program within the computer. Instead his computer had to read instructions from punched cards. John Mauchley, an American physicist, and J. Presper Eckert, an American engineer, proposed an electronic digital computer, called the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), which was built at the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The computer was based on some concepts developed by John Atanasoff, a physics teacher at Iowa State College. ENIAC was completed in 1945 and is regarded as the first successful, general digital computer.
Mitarbeiterinnen Der Eckert-Mauchly-Company
direkt nach dem Krieg gegründeten Firma von J. presper eckert und John W
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"Shooting At People Wasn't Our Bag": One Of The Inventors Of The Computer Speaks
J. presper eckert No, engineering problems, scientific problems in general, of whichthe ballistics problem was the convenient problem for which what in show
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Extractions: Printer-Friendly Version by John Presper Eckert/David Allison and Peter Vogt Listen to Audio Download RealAudio David Allison: J. Presper Eckert: No, engineering problems, scientific problems in general, of which the ballistics problem was the convenient problem for which what in show business would have been called, there was an available angel to finance it. Allison: You knew that even as you were designing it. Eckert: Allison: So the war gave you an opportunity. Eckert: Gave us an opportunity for someone who was interested in doing a problem which fit something we would like to do. Allison: And it gave you money and supplies. Eckert: Source: Development of the ENIAC interviews, Smithsonian Video History Collection, Record Unit 9537, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC. Oral history courtesy of Smithsonian Video History Collection, Record Unit 9537, Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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eckert, J. presper (John presper), 1919. Larson, Earl R. Bloch, Richard M. (RichardMilton). eckert, J. presper, research notebook, 1946-1947 (folder 15).
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Extractions: Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records, 1846-1973 (bulk: 1925-1973) CBI 1 By: Prepared by Bruce H. Bruemmer, March 1991; revised by Lynn Leitte, November 1999 Collection Size: 20.75 cubic ft. (52 boxes) Creator: Honeywell, Inc. Acquisition: The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Honeywell, Inc., 1984. Access: Access to the collection is unrestricted. Preferred Citation: Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records (CBI 1), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The Honeywell-Sperry Rand suit grew out of the ENIAC patent, which covered basic patents relating to the design of electronic digital computers. After the patent was granted to the Sperry Rand Corporation in 1964, the corporation demanded royalties from all major participants in the computer industry. Honeywell refused to cooperate, so Sperry Rand then filed a patent infringement suit against Honeywell in 1967. Honeywell responded in the same year with an antitrust suit charging that the Sperry Rand-IBM cross-licensing agreement was a conspiracy to monopolize the computer industry, and also that the ENIAC patent was fraudulently procured and invalid. Honeywell filed suit against Sperry Rand and its subsidiary, Illinois Scientific Instruments, Inc., in U.S. District Court (Minnesota District, 4th Div., No. 4-67-Civ. 138). The ENIAC patents were filed in 1947 by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, arising from the work conducted at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1946, Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School and formed their own commercial computer enterprise, the Electronic Control Company, which was later incorporated as the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. In 1950 Remington Rand acquired Eckert-Mauchly. The rights to the ENIAC patent eventually passed to Sperry Rand as a result of a merger of the Sperry Corporation and Remington Rand in 1955.
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Translate this page 1942-1945 Projeto e desenvolvimento do ENIAC por J. presper eckert e John W. Mauchlyda Universidade da Pensilvânia (EUA) primeiro computador de propósito
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Extractions: Next: Arquitetura de computadores Up: John von Neumann Previous: Introdução As grandes invenções tecnólogicas dificilmente aparecem de maneira independente. A idéia de automatizar os cálculos vem desde a antigüidade e começou com a utilização de pedras e outros dispositivos que deram origem aos ábacos, progredindo durante vários séculos até o aparecimento de computadores digitais na década de 1940. O resumo apresentado a seguir é uma tentativa de indicar alguns marcos importantes nesta história. Foram citados apenas aqueles eventos que nos parecem mais significativos; muitos outros podem ser encontrados na literatura especializada. Os fatos apresentados referem-se apenas à construção de máquinas digitais, pois desde a antigüidade foram desenvolvidos também vários dispositivos analógicos, incluindo a régua de cálculo, astrolábios, integradores e diferenciadores, com aplicações à astronomia, à navegação e outros. Tampouco foram citadas outras contribuições indiretas como os trabalhos teóricos de George Boole ou Alan Turing. As referências mais importantes consultadas neste levantamento histórico são as de Rosen [ ], Goldstine [
Von Neumann's First Computer Program
1966), 3031. 4 eckert, J. presper, JR., AND JOHN W. MAUCHLY. C (4 pp). (Originallyclassified Confidential. ). 5 eckert, J. presper, JR., AND JOHN W MAUCHLY.
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2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal In Computer And Cognitive Science
1949, J. presper eckert, Jr. Potts Medal. 1961, J. presper eckert, Jr. ScottMedal. 1979, Seymour R. Cray, Potts Medal. 1979, Marcian E. Hoff, Jr.
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computer. Name ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) DevelopersJohn Mauchly and J. presper eckert. Approximate Development
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Extractions: Modern Day Computing. "A quantum computer defies common sense... Quantum computing is Twilight Zone technology." - Simon Singh. Year Name Made by Comments Pascaline Pascal First mechanical calculator Analytical Engine Babbage First attempt to build a digital computer Differential Analyzer Bush Mechanical calculator for solving differential equations Zuse First working relay calculating machine ABC Iowa State One of the first electronic computers COLOSSUS British Government First electronic computer Mark I Aiken First American General Purpose Computer ENIAC I Eckert/Mauchley Modern computer history starts here EDSAC Wilkes First stored-program computer Whirlwind I MIT First real-time computer IAS Von Neumann Most current machines use this design IBM First massed produced computer PDP-1 DEC First minicomputer (50 sold) IBM Enormously popular small business machine IBM Dominated scientific computing in the early 1960¡¯s Burroughs First machine designed for a high-level language IBM First product line designed as a family for mainframes CDC First scientific supercomputer PDP-8 DEC First mass-market minicomputer (50,000 sold)
NCERD IT : Biographies : Mauchly & Eckert
NCERD IT Timeline. A Short Biography of John Mauchly (American 19071980)and J. presper eckert (American 1919-1995). ENIAC. America
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Extractions: and J. Presper Eckert (American 1919-1995) Americas first completely electronic computer was designed by the engineer John Mauchly and a graduate student called J. Presper Eckert. The ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) weighed 50 tonnes and occupied 2000 sq. ft. It contained 18000 vacuum tubes and several kilometers of electrical wire. It could store about 20 words in its memory. At a press conference at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 it was announced that ENIAC could multiply a 5-digit number by itself 5000 times in half a second. ENIAC ENIAC was designed to calculate ballistic trajectories. One of the first test runs was the Manhatten Project to help create the first atomic bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Eckert and Mauchley's Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC) was completed in 1950 and was the first to use magnetic disks for storage. Eckert and Mauchly were better at computer design than they were at the economics of running a company. Their company, the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation soon hit financial difficulties, the main problem being that this was such a new area that costs of production were extremely hard to estimate.
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EckeJ51 eckert, J. presper, Jr., James R. Weiner, H. Frazer Welsh, and HerbertF. Mitchell The UNIVAC System, AIEEIRE Conf., pp. 6-16, December, 1951.
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Extractions: previous contents next Bibliography 643 DesmW64 Desmonde, W. H.: "Real Time Data Processing Systems," Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs. N.J., 1964. DijkE65 Dijkstra, E. W.: Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control, Comm. ACM, vol. 8, no. 9, p. 569, September, 1965. DreyP58 Dreyfus, P.: System Design of the Gamma 60, Proc. WJCC, pp. 130-133, May, 1958. DunwS56 Dunwell, S. W.: Design Objectives for the IBM STRETCH Computer, Proc. EJCC, pp. 20-22, 1956. EcclW19 Eccles, W. H., and F. W. Jordan: A Trigger Relay, Radio Rev., pp. 143-146, October, 1919. EckeJ51 Eckert, J. Presper, Jr., James R. Weiner, H. Frazer Welsh, and Herbert F. Mitchell: The UNIVAC System, AIEE-IRE Conf., pp. 6-16, December, 1951. EckeJ59 Eckert, J. P., J. C. Chu, A. B. Tonik, and W. J. Schmitt: Design of Univac-LARC System, Part I, Proc. EJCC, pp. 59-65, 1959. EdwaD60 Edwards, D. B. G., M. J. Lanigan, and T. Kilburn: Ferrite-core Memory Systems with Rapid Cycle Times, Proc. IEE, pt. B, vol. 107, pp. 585-598, November, 1960. ElboR53 Elbourne, R. D., and R. P. Witt: Dynamic Circuit Techniques Used in SEAC and DYSEAC, IRE Trans.
"J" Terms [The Jargon Dictionary]
Fred Muggs , a showbiz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the earlydays of TMRC, and was probably influenced by `J. presper eckert (one of
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Extractions: The Jargon Dictionary - http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/j.html The Jargon Dictionary Terms : The J Terms This may take some time to load since you're getting all of the "J" terms in one file. Not to worry, tho... you should be able to move easily about the file once it's loaded into your cache. If your machine is light on memory, however, you may prefer to reference the "J" terms each in their own file . That's also the best way to go if you want to put a link to a particular term on your webpage. A B C D ... I J K L M N ... jupiter J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [common; generalized from J. Random Hacker ] Arbitrary; ordinary; any one; any old. `J. Random' is often prefixed to a noun to make a name out of it. It means roughly `some particular' or `any specific one'. "Would you let J. Random Loser marry your daughter?" The most common uses are `J. Random Hacker', `J. Random Loser', and `J. Random Nerd' ("Should J. Random Loser be allowed to gun down other people?"), but it can be used simply as an elaborate version of random in any sense.
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J. presper eckert. eckert was a grad student studying at the MooreSchool in 1943. There, he met John Mauchly, who spoke about the
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Extractions: J. Presper Eckert Eckert was a grad student studying at the Moore School in 1943. There, he met John Mauchly, who spoke about the idea of an electronic version of the Ganged Calculator. Mauchley needed someone to oversee the design and construction of the ENIAC, and it was J. Presper Eckert who rose to the challenge. Second, the tubes themselves led "pampered" lives, for vacuum tubes. Eckert knew that tubes usually fail early or late in their lives, so he made sure the ENIAC used only tubes drawn from a special 'burnt-in" selection. These were tubes that had been running long enough to be known to be good, but still young enough to have many useful hours left. Also, the circuits were only energized with about one quarter of the normal voltage for the tubes. This way, the tubes ran much cooler and thus lasted longer.

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