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...huge gadget was known as the "electronic numerical integrator and computer." Its inventors-Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert-called it "eniac." For their blue-ribbon audience, they demonstrated how eniac could compute the trajectory of a shell in less time than it would take the shell to reach its target. Thus, in a trice, eniac showed its superiority over all its predecessors...
Harvard University has long had a calculator which would do almost any mathematical job. But it was slow; its inner works were like those of an ordinary adding machine. M.I.T. had a faster gadget, but it, too, was largely mechanical. What was needed, said Mauchly and Eckert, was a calculator with no moving parts except the fast-flying electrons inside vacuum tubes. With Army help and money, they built one, in 30 months...
...Dick Eckert and Harry Poole, who pull Harvard's basketball strings, managerially speaking, adopt a middle-of-the-road attitude. Eckert sometimes has semi-fanatical tendencies, being a hoopster of no mean proportions himself, and has been known at times to grow irate when his worthies have been blasphemed by local college journals, but Dick is more prone to tend efficiently to his duties, as is Harry. And God help the opposing manager who tries to jockey with the time clock. When the Harvard five went out west this winter, it was Eckert who wrote the stories for local papers...
Richard N. Eckert...
Richard N. Eckert...