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J. Presper Eckert
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American electrical engineer who co-designed ENIAC with John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School, then co-founded the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and co-designed UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer built in the United States. He and Mauchly were principals in the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand case, the 1973 US court ruling on priority for the ENIAC patent.
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Von Neumann Architecture, Concepts Why this is disputed. Eckert and Mauchly had essentially finished designing a stored-program computer before discussing the ideas with von Neumann; the architecture's naming credits him alone despite this.
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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC's designers, founded the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and went on to design UNIVAC I, the first commercially produced computer in the United States.
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With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC)
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John Adam Presper Eckert Jr., born April 9, 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US; died June 3, 1995, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, US.
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Eckert and Mauchly had essentially finished designing a stored program computer before discussing the ideas with von Neumann
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