John William Mauchly
- (b.) 1907 August 30 - (d.) 1980 January 08
Bio/Description
Co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, Mauchly worked alongside J. Presper Eckert to design EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. Together they started the first computer company, the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), and pioneered fundamental computer concepts including the stored program, subroutines, and programming languages.
Their work, as expounded in the widely read First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945) and as taught in the Moore School Lectures (1946), influenced an explosion of computer development in the late 1940s all over the world.
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Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Library
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Date of Birth:
1907 August 30 -
Date of Death:
1980 January 08 -
Gender:
Male -
Noted For:
Co-inventor, ENIAC -
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