John Presper Eckert
John Presper Eckert (born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania) was an American computer pioneer. Together with John W. Mauchly , he designed the ENIAC in 1946 . Mauchly concentrated on the overall design of the tube computer while Eckert developed the electronic circuits.
The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation soon received from the National Bureau of Standards ( Bureau of Standards ) commissioned the first commercially produced computer, the Universal Automatic Computer ( UNIVAC to build). After the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation got into financial difficulties in 1950, it was bought by the Remington Rand Corporation.
In December 1950 the UNIVAC I was ready. Eckert stayed with Remington Rand, later Sperry and Unisys , and held managerial positions. In 1989 he left Unisys, but was still available to the company as a consultant.
The Eckert-Mauchly Award for Computer Architecture from the ACM and IEEE Computer Society is named after him and Mauchly.
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| SURNAME | Eckert, John Presper |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1995 |
| Place of death | Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania |