Who invented the computer? For anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the University of Pennsylvania and seen the shrine to the ENIAC, the answer may seem obvious: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., ...

After achieving success designing the first electronic general-purpose computer, early computer pioneers J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly created one of the first computer companies, The ...

Philadelphia is a lot like Merry Old England. The first digital general-purpose computer, the ENIAC, was born in Philadelphia in 1946, so you might have expected a flourishing computer industry to ...

The first computing start-up was the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded by American researchers J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly (both USA) on 8 December 1947. The company was created to ...

If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Hackaday reader, and you have a better shot. People who know will tell you that the ...

J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995) and John Mauchly (1907–1980) were coinventors of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the World War II-era computing device that launched the ...

Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240970 [Title] => Credit due [Summary] => Phoebe our sister . . . has been a helper of many and of myself also. – ROMANS 16:1-2 In 1946, when ...

The Second World War provided the impetus for the development of many technologies and computing is a prime example. Aiming a gun may seem to be a simple enough task - just point and fire - but if you ...

__1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an amazingly accurate projection that the ...