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Name: John Mauchly
Birth Date: August 30, 1907
Death Date: January 8, 1980
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Place of Death: Abington, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist, electrical engineer

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Biography of John William Mauchly
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John William Mauchly, a physicist and computer engineer, is widely credited with co-inventing two of the most important early computers. With J. Presper Eckert, Mauchly invented the first general-purpose digital electronic computer, the Electronic...
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Biography of John Mauchly
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John Mauchly, with J. Presper Eckert, designed and built several significant computers in the 1940s--ENIAC, EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC. Mauchly was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and became interested in science while very young. He studied engineering and...
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Biography of John Mauchly
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John Mauchly (1907-1980) was the visionary and co-inventor (with J.P. Eckert) of one of the first electronic computers. Though he is not well known and his career was frustrating, Mauchly essentially invented computer science and was the first computer...


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John William Mauchly Summary
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1907-1980 American Computer Engineer John W. Mauchly was a pioneer of modern computing. In the 1940s Mauchly headed the project that produced the ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic digital computer. He also co-founded the...
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John William Mauchly (August 30 1907 – January 8 1980) 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...


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John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer.
01/01/2003: 130 words, approx. 1 pages
www.library. upenn.edu/special/gallery/mauchly/jwmi ntro.html. Dept. of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, Univ. of Pennsylvania. (Accessed 12/02/02). Gr 9-12--On Valentine's Day in 1946, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled to the world. The precursor to our laptops and fancy PC's weighed 30...
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Business History Review
Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957
10/01/2006: 1,381 words, approx. 5 pages
Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957. By Arthur L. Norberg. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. x + 347 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-262-14090-X. Reviewed...
 


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