Who invented the computer? For anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the University of Pennsylvania and seen the shrine to the ENIAC, the answer may seem obvious: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

After achieving success designing the first electronic general-purpose computer, early computer pioneers J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly created one of the first computer companies, The ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...

Early computers were behemoths, comparable size-wise to compact cars. When this Aug. 30, 1949 photo was taken, James R. Wiener, J. Presper Eckert Jr., and Dr. John W. Mauchly were looking over the ...

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Mauchly and Eckert met by chance during the early years of World War II at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Mauchly, an established physicist, was taking a ...

My father’s account of the development of a functioning electronic computing machine is different from Presper’s recollections as recently presented in your publication. The interview presents Pres’ ...

From a technological perspective, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was an unqualified success. But the story behind ENIAC--its development and demise--is a classic illustration of how ...