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	Interview with J. Presper Eckert
		Eckert demonstrated the operation of the accumulators, plug-in units, wiring conduits, and function tables with the original artifacts displayed in the gallery.
		JPE: The signals all came in from connectors in the front of the panels, and went to trays between the panel and the floor that were arranged around the whole machine.
		JPE: Of course, three of the panels were relays, but the thirty-seven remaining panels were connected by wiring troughs which contained, generally speaking, eleven wires along the trays.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/comphist/eckert.htm (16997 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: J. Presper Eckert (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eckert was born to a wealthy real estate developer John Eckert and was raised in a large house in Philadelphia's Germantown section.
		Eckert and Mauchly's agreement with the University of Pennsylvania was that Eckert and Mauchly retained the patent rights to the ENIAC but the University could license it to the government and non-profit organizations.
		JPE: The signals all came in from connectors in the front of the panels, and went to trays between the panel and the floor that were arranged around the whole machine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/J.-Presper-Eckert (2165 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eckert was born to a wealthy real estate developer John Eckert and was raised in a large house in Philadelphia's Germantown section.
		Eckert and Mauchly's agreement with the University of Pennsylvania was that Eckert and Mauchly retained the patent rights to the ENIAC but the University could license it to the government and non-profit organizations.
		Some computer historians—and Eckert himself—believed that the widely-adopted term "von Neumann architecture" should properly be known as the "Eckert Architecture," since the stored-program concept central to the von Neumann architecture had already been developed at the Moore School by the time von Neumann arrived on the scene in 1944-1945.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=J._Presper_Eckert (781 words)

	NetLingo: An Interview With John Presper Eckert
		JPE: Every sequence of steps, every little routine you had, even if it was identical to the next one, except a change in the index numbers in it--or subscript numbers, if you're a mathematician--it had to be repunched, with slight differences on the tape.
		JPE: Here again, by plugging this portable initiating cable into one of these, or connecting this to one of the trays and plug in anywhere, you could trigger the machine that read punch cards, you could trigger the machine which punched punch cards, which is called the printer.
		JPE: The signals all came in from connectors in the front of the panels, and went to trays between the panel and the floor that were arranged around the whole machine.
	www.netlingo.com /more/eckertinterview.html (16997 words)

	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Eckert, John Presper , Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Eckert graduated from Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1941 and was promptly given a spot on the faculty.
		Eckert told an interviewer for the Smithsonian Institution Archives in 1988 that the team’s original idea for the ENIAC came from examining the workings of ordinary mechanical desk calculators.
		The creative team of Eckert and Mauchly was, unfortunately, not as skilled in business as in science; the firm had trouble estimating the costs of production in the new field of computers and the company was sold to Remington Rand in 1950.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=&DicID=17876&RefType=Encyclopedia (860 words)

	Wikipedia: J. Presper Eckert
		John Presper Eckert, a computer pioneer, was born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia and died June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
		Both Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1946.
		Eckert remained with Remington Rand and became an executive within the company.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/j/j_/j__presper_eckert.html (233 words)

	Eckert Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eckert's instructorship was in the Moore School's defense training program which attempted to train scientist in how best to direct their research towards the war effort.
		Eckert left the Moore School to work on various projects at MIT including measuring metal fatigue using UV light and measuring radar pulse echo times to within one hundredth of a microsecond.
		Eckert stayed on and was eventually appointed vice president for the Remington Rand Division, a post he held from 1955 to 1962.
	www.csulb.edu /~cwallis/wallis/computability/Eckert.html (378 words)

	Eckert_John biography
		Eckert taught a defence course at the Moore School and one of his students on the course was John Mauchly.
		Eckert left the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1946, as did Mauchly.
		Eckert and Mauchly were better at computer design than they were at the economics of running a company.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Eckert_John.html (0 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > J. Presper Eckert (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Presper Eckert, a computer pioneer, was born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia and died June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
		Together with John W. Mauchly he constructed the ENIAC, sometimes considered the first digital computer (but see John Atanasoff for conflicting claims), from 1941-1945.
		Both Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1946.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/j./J._Presper_Eckert (236 words)

	J. Presper Eckert - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		John Presper Eckert, a computer pioneer, was born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia and died June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
		(Herman Lukoff credits Eckert with the idea of the stored program.) Eckert and Mauckly's agreement with the University of Pennsylvania was that Eckert and Mauckly retained the patent rights to the ENIAC but the University could license it to the government and non-profit organizations.
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	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/j/_/J._Presper_Eckert_f019.html (330 words)

	K. Ryan Weston - CS3604 Assignment #2 - 1997
		Eckert and Mauchly joined forces to produce the electrical monstrosity of 18,000 vacuum tubes and rewirable control panels that was to be the Armys saving grace.
		Eckert and Mauchly were prepared to absorb the cost of anticipated losses in additional parts or research, depending upon the prospect of selling parts and service to the installations where their product would be implemented.
		Eckert and Mauchly had entered the business world with UNIVAC as the opportunity to snatch away the customers who were currently wrapped up in IBM's computing equipment and punch-card media for their business needs.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/UNIVAC.Weston.html (2101 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the scientists credited with the invention of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, completed in 1946.
		Eckert remained with the company as an executive and continued with the company as it later merged with the Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys.
		Eckert and Mauchly were recognized with numerous honors and awards for their work, having both received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1969 and the IEEE Computer Society Pioneer Award in 1980.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/mauchly-eckert.html (702 words)

	SIAM: Two Unknowns and Their Ambitious New Computing Machine
		Eckert and Mauchly arranged with the university in 1943 that the patents could be held by the individual members of the Moore School team who were responsible for the inventions.
		Eckert and Mauchly eventually sold their company to Remington Rand---and with it the rights to the ENIAC patent, which was in essence a patent for the general-purpose computer.
		Eckert and Mauchly were undercapitalized, mediocre managers (e.g., signing fixed-cost instead of development or time-and-material contracts), without a customer base, and unfocused in their business plan (selling a computer to anybody for any purpose).
	www.siam.org /news/news.php?id=795 (3192 words)

	The ENIAC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Mauchly was the chief consultant and J. Presper Eckert was the chief engineer.
		Eckert was a graduate student, studying at the Moore School when he met Mauchly in 1943.
		Eckert and Mauchly founded the Eckert - Mauchly Computer Corporation and made great advances, but it was with this invention, the ENIAC, that people started to think about the Stored Programme Concept.
	www.geocities.com /salamilano/index.html (298 words)

	IEEEVM: J. Presper Eckert
		Presper Eckert, Jr., was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1919.
		However, Eckert and Mauchly were both better scientists than businessmen, and the company they founded, the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation, did not remain independent.
		Eckert was a star engineer at Remington Rand until he retired.
	www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/people.php?id=1234636 (0 words)

	J. Presper Eckert Summary
		Eckert was widely regarded as a superb engineer while at the Moore School, but he could be stubborn, and his work habits were regarded as odd.
		Eckert proved himself a brilliant designer, overcoming what had been considered to be an insurmountable barrier to the construction of a useful computer: the unreliability of vacuum tube circuits.
		Eckert and Mauchly were featured speakers at the famous Moore School lecture series that introduced scientists from around the globe to the principles of electronic computing.
	www.bookrags.com /J._Presper_Eckert (5101 words)

	Inventor J. Presper Eckert Biography
		Fascinating facts about J. Presper Eckert co-inventor of the ENIAC computer in 1946.
		Eckert had more than 85 patents for his various electronic inventions.
		Transcript of an Interview with J. Presper Eckert at the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/eckert.htm (415 words)

	eniac's 50th Anniversary: The Birth of the Information Age -- A Short History of the Second American Revolution by ...
		As an instructor at the Moore School in the summer of 1941, Eckert was hired as an assistant responsible for running the electronics lab associated with the ESMWT course.
		Eckert and his team of engineers tested various vacuum tubes, studying when and why they failed in order to eke out a more delicate mode of operation that would increase the life of individual tubes.
		Eckert had proposed ways to overcome what he recognized as the major shortcoming of ENIAC, which introduced most of the fundamental elements of hardware design that have become the basis of subsequent computing machinery, with the exception of internally stored instructions.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v42/n18/eniac.html (5052 words)

	DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENIAC [RU 9537] - Smithsonian Videohistory Collection
		J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly were the principle designers.
		Eckert demonstrated the operation of the accumulators, plug-in units, wiring conduits, and function tables with the original artifacts displayed in the gallery.
		Presper Eckert, born April 9, 1919, attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering, in 1941 and 1943 respectively.
	www.si.edu /archives/ihd/videocatalog/9537.htm (457 words)

	J. Presper Eckert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eckert and Mauchly examine a printout of ENIAC results in a newsreel from February 1946.
		Eckert and Mauchly's agreement with the University of Pennsylvania was that Eckert and Mauchly retained the patent rights to the ENIAC but the University could license it to the government and non-profit organizations.
		Some computer historians--and Eckert himself--believed that the widely-adopted term von Neumann architecture should properly be known as the "Eckert Architecture," since the stored-program concept central to the von Neumann architecture had already been developed at the Moore School by the time von Neumann arrived on the scene in 1944-1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._Presper_Eckert (488 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		J. Presper Eckert was co-inventor of ENIAC, introduced to the public at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946.
		Eckert was born in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania.
		Eckert remained with the company when it was acquired by Remington Rand and when it merged with Burroughs Corporation, becoming Unisys.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/181.html (204 words)

	UNIVAC FAQ
		The UNIVAC was built by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, from 1946 to 1951.
		Eckert was a brilliant pioneer in the computer field, having been co-inventor of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) with John Mauchly..
		Eckert and Mauchly started their own computer company which was the first computer company in the United States.
	www.computermuseum.li /Testpage/UNIVAC-FAQ.htm (1245 words)

	"Shooting at People Wasn't Our Bag": One of the Inventors of the Computer Speaks
		The first general-purpose electronic computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the ENIAC, sponsored by the U.S. Army’s Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and developed at the the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Presper Eckert: No, engineering problems, scientific problems in general, of which the ballistics problem was the convenient problem for which what in show business would have been called, there was an available angel to finance it.
		Eckert: Gave us an opportunity for someone who was interested in doing a problem which fit something we would like to do.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/143 (519 words)

	John Presper Eckert (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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).
		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.
	www.wellesley.edu /CS/courses/CS110/History/PresperEckert.html (112 words)

	Penn Special Collections-Mauchly Exhibition Introduction
		In focusing on Mauchly, we do not claim that he was the principal or sole inventor of this machine.
		Presper Eckert (1919-1995), who at the time of the ENIAC's inception in 1942 had barely completed his Master's degree.
		If Mauchly had initially conceived of ENIAC's architecture, it was Eckert who possessed the engineering skills to bring the idea to life.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwmintro.html (319 words)

	HNF - Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Presper Eckert developed the ENIAC, the world's first electronic large-scale general-purpose digital automatic calculator, at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Due to financial difficulties, Mauchly and Eckert had to sell their company to Remington Rand in 1950 but remained in charge of the development of UNIVAC.
		Presper Eckert and the key invention in the UNIVAC: memory based on mercury delay lines.
	www.hnf.de /museum/aiken_eckert_mauchly_en.html (322 words)

	John P. Eckert
		At the university of Pennsylvenia Eckert and the late John.
		Eckert was awarded a National Science Medal in 1968.
		Presper Eckert was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/eckert_john.html (361 words)

	School of Information Science - Hall of Fame
		Presper Eckert along with John Mauchly built the Electronic Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Eckert and Mauchly also started the Electric Control Company in 1946.
		Throughout this time, Presper Eckert was an executive of the company until his retirement in 1989.
	www.sis.pitt.edu /~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/eckert.html (239 words)

	The Invention and History of the ENIAC Computer - Mauchly and Eckert
		On May 31, 1943, the military commission on the new computer began; Mauchly was the chief consultant and Eckert was the chief engineer.
		Eckert was a graduate student studying at the Moore School when he met John Mauchly in 1943.
		Eckert and Mauchly both received the IEEE Computer Society Pioneer Award in 1980.
	penguicon.sourceforge.net /comphist/links/timelines/inventors/html/aa060298.htm (707 words)

	Presper Eckert
		Developed by John Presper Eckert 19191995 and John W. Mauchly 19071980, ENIAC, unlike the Colossus and Mark I, was a generalpurpose computer that...
		The ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator 1946: was built at the University of Pennsylvania by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
		Their second contribution was the development of the giant ENIAC machine by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.megaessays.com /essay_search/Presper_Eckert.html (332 words)

	Professor Wallace J. Eckert
		Eckert directed the construction of a number of innovative computers for performing astronomical calculations, including the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC, 1949) and the Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC, 1954), which for many years was the most powerful computer in the world.
		The accuracy of Eckert's calculations of the Moon's orbit was so good that in 1965 he was able to correctly show that there was a concentration of mass near the lunar surface.
		Eckert was invited to chair the MTAC executive committee but had to decline due to his wartime responsibilities; nevertheless he participated vigorously in MTAC's founding and production [88].
	www.columbia.edu /acis/history/eckert.html (3197 words)

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