J. Presper Eckert Jr., as he preferred to be known, was born in Philadelphia. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

The two men most responsible for its success were J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, who together went on to build commercial systems such as Univac and also founded one of the companies that ...

J. Presper Eckert, the UNIVAC's inventor, stood next to the device and explained its workings. The woman who actually programmed the mainframe, Navy mathematician Grace Murray Hopper was ...

J. Presper Eckert Jr., as he preferred to be known, was born in Philadelphia. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

In the early 1940s, J. Presper Eckert was the designer and chief engineer building ENIAC, the first general-purpose all-electronic computer (see “The Eckert Tapes: Computer Pioneer Says ENIAC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan Turin is said to have invented computer science, though John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert are credited with building the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ENIAC in 1945 ...