John Mauchly
Physicist, Computer Scientist
1907 – 1980
Who was John Mauchly?
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as 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, and pioneered fundamental computer concepts including the stored program, subroutines, and programming languages. Their work, as exposed in the widely read First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC and as taught in the Moore School Lectures, influenced an explosion of computer development in the late 1940s all over the world.
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- Born
- Aug 30, 1907
Cincinnati - Also known as
- John William Mauchly
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Ursinus College
- Employment
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Cincinnati
- Philadelphia
- Died
- Jan 8, 1980
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on July 23, 2013
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