J. Presper Eckert

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J. Presper Eckert
Birthday	Wednesday, April 09, 1919
Birthplace	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	Saturday, June 03, 1995
Nationality	American
Occupation	electrical engineer
Known for	ENIAC

J. Presper Eckert

(person)

One of the developers of ENIAC.

Biography.

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The leaders of the team developing the ENIAC were Penn's John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. Jean Bartik was one of those who helped develop the first programs.

Who invented the computer?

Other advances ensued until 1944 when the first large computer came into being in a basement at the University of Pennsylvania, the work of J. Presper Eckert. It was designed to calculate artillery trajectories.

Putting words on pages

Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and the first such computer built for commercial purposes, was dedicated and demonstrated in Philadelphia, Pa.

1951: Business and industry; science; education; philosophy and religion

The Eckert-Mauchly Award is named in honor of J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, co-inventors of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer.