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...computer--a machine that could perform logical functions based on whatever instructions were fed to it--and then proceeded to help build one in the early 1940s that cracked the German wartime codes. His concepts were refined by other computer pioneers: John von Neumann, John Atanasoff, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

DIED. DR. WILLIAM ECKERT, 73, forensic pathologist; of congestive heart failure; in New Orleans; on Sept. 17. Eckert, who worked on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Charles Manson murders, was a pioneer who encouraged collaboration between law-enforcement and forensics teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert build ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We've Become Digital | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Mauchly and Eckert create UNIVAC, the first commercial computer; a year later, it successfully predicts a landslide for Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We've Become Digital | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...John Mauchly and John Eckert unveil ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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