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J. Presper Eckert
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(person)J. Presper Eckert - One of the developers of ENIAC.

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One without electronic computers, the brainchild of a slew of Americans, from Presper Eckert to Steve Jobs.
The Power of TECHNOLOGY by Fountain, Henry / New York Times Upfront
His partner, the engineering ramrod for the Eniac project, John Presper Eckert, once explained that Mauchly's "goal was to forecast the weather, and it was only incidental that he found out there was just no computing machine that existed that would handle all this voluminous stuff.
ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer by Lohr, Steve / Washington Monthly
It was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, in 1947.
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