Word: presper
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...three years she did the kind of mind-numbing mathematical drudgery--punching numbers into a mechanical calculator and copying down the results--that in those days was measured in "girl hours." Then she was invited by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering to help J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly put the finishing touches on a new kind of computing device called ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). That machine and its descendants were destined not only to make her old job obsolete but to change the world profoundly...
DIED. John W. Mauchly, 72, co-inventor of the first all-electronic computer; during heart surgery; in Abington, Pa. The Ohio-born physicist was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 when he and Graduate Student J. Presper Eckert Jr. began building an electronic machine to replace mechanical devices. The ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), a 30-ton leviathan completed in 1946, was 1,000 times speedier than any other computer. After selling their company to the Sperry Rand Corp., the two devised smaller and even quicker machines, among them the celebrated UNIVAC, developed...