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John Mauchly
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American physicist who co-designed ENIAC with J. Presper Eckert, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, and went on to co-design EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I. He and Eckert were principals in the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand case, the 1973 US court ruling on priority for the ENIAC patent.
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Binary Search, Concepts John Mauchly described the basic idea of binary search in a 1946 lecture, already the cited source for this concept's own origin-year fact.
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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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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.
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Born August 30, 1907, Cincinnati, Ohio, US; died January 8, 1980, Ambler, Pennsylvania, US.
1. Wikipedia: John Mauchly
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Wikipedia: Von Neumann architecture
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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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