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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...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA John Presper Eckert Jr., co-developer (at Penn in 1942) of ENIAC, first electronic digital computer...
...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...