John Mauchly

John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist and computer engineer who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, long held to be the first electronic digital computer, and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and died in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Mauchly led the conceptual design while Eckert led the hardware engineering on ENIAC. It could add 5,000 numbers or do fourteen 10-digit multiplications in one second.

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August 30 - 1907 - January 8 - 1980 - American - Physicist - Computer engineer - J. Presper Eckert - ENIAC - Digital computer - UNIVAC I - Cincinnati, Ohio - Ambler, Pennsylvania

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Mauchy and Eckert's patent claim on the 1946 ENIAC was invalidated by U.S. Federal Court decision in October, 1973. The notion the Mauchly borrowed ideas from Atanasoff has been largely rejected because the ENIAC is completely different than the ABC in design and function. John Mauchly built the first electronic computer (ENIAC), the first stored program machine (EDVAC), anad the first commercial computer (UNIVAC). Von Neuman, Atanasoff, Goldstine and others overtly tried to steal Mauchly's ideas for personal gain. John Mauchly has also been credited for being the first one using the verb "to program" in his 1942 paper on electronic computing, although in the context of ENIAC, not in its current meaning.

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1946 - 1973 - Program

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