John Presper Eckert

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Presper Eckert

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Born: April 9, 1919 Died: June 3, 1995

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J. Presper Eckert was only a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 when he began his momentous work on ENIAC (Electronic Integrator and Computer). His ingenuity helped to solve a major problem of ENIAC: how to make vacuum tubes which often burned out without warning more reliable on the whole. Eckert's success went beyond his work on ENIAC. He formed his own company with co-inventor, John Maunchly, which later merged with Remington Rand. His business experience rivaled that of top success stories and his optimum success is evident in the various awards, including the US National Medal of Science in 1969.

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Maize, Kennedy (1995). What¹s New: ENIAC Inventor Dies At 76 [WWW document].

http://tcp.cs/July95/Eniac.html

(1995). John Presper Eckert [WWW document].

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Eckert_John.html

(1995). J. Presper Eckert Dies [WWW document].

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/deaths/eckert.htm