Mauchly, John W. (John William), 1907-1980
Sperry Univac Point of View speech, 1973 November 13.
Address given by John W. Mauchly at Sperry Univac's 1973 Point of View meeting in Rome. Topics include: his early use of computers at Ursinus College in weather prediction and determination that calculators using vacuum tubes to function at much higher speeds were feasible; Moore School of Electrical Engineering; J. Presper Eckert; funding to build ENIAC; funding of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation UNIVAC computer by the National Bureau of Standards.
Physicist, work in electronic digital computers. Development of the first such computer, the ENIAC, during World War II. In conjunction with John Presper Eckert, Jr. Work was performed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania under an Army Ordnance Department grant. Eckert and Mauchly also developed the EDVAC, the first stored program computer, as well as the BINAC, and the UNIVAC, the first commercial electronic digital computer.
Mauchly, John W. (John William), 1907-1980
Eckert, J. Presper (John Presper), 1919-1995.
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.
Meteorology -- Research
ENIAC (Computer)
Computers.
Computer industry -- United States.
Univac computer
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