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  John Mauchly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mauchly was born August 30, 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
John Mauchly has also been credited for being the first one using the verb "to program" in his 1942 paper on electronic computing, although in the context of ENIAC, not in its current meaning.
Mauchly and Eckert's patent claim on the 1946 ENIAC was invalidated by U.S. Federal Court decision in October, 1973 for several reasons.
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 Inventor of the Week: Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Mauchly, who was responsible for much of the overall design, is said to have been influenced by the work of Iowa State College professor John V. Atanasoff, who had designed and built an electronic computing device between 1937 and 1942 with a graduate student, Clifford Berry.
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.
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 John Mauchly Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Mauchly (1907-1980) was the visionary and co-inventor (with J.P. Eckert) of one of the first electronic computers.
Mauchly was instrumental in the establishment of the Eastern Association of Computing Machinery in 1947 and was its second president in 1948.
Mauchly and Eckert came up with the BINAC in 1949, which was essentially a refined version of their other computers.
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 John William Mauchly Biography | World of Computer Science
John William Mauchly, a physicist and computer engineer, is widely credited with co-inventing two of the most important early computers.
Mauchly was born on August 30, 1907, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Sebastian J. Mauchly and Rachel Scheidemantel Mauchly.
Mauchly had a strong early interest in meteorology, but he found studying the weather to be particularly difficult because it took so much time to coordinate all the data.
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 The Internet Examiner » John von Neumann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Born in Budapest in 1903, John von Neumann was professor of mathematics at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 until his death in 1957; he became a U.S. citizen in 1937.
An early draft of the paper was distributed without the acknowledgements von Neumann had intended to add; Mauchly and Eckert were not amused, and their relationship with von Neumann became awkward.
John von Neumann (pronounced fon NOY-man) held a place in mathematics that could be compared only to that of Albert Einstein in physics.
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 Mauchly Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Mauchly was born in Cincinnati, OH on august 30th 1907.
Mauchly was offered a position as an instructor for the course afterwards which gave him entrée to the Moore School.
In the summer of 1942 Mauchly outlined the idea of a large-scale digital electronic computer designed for general numerical computations, but pitched as a means to overcome the backlog of ballistic calculations at Moore.
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 Mauchly biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Both Mauchly and John Eckert left the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1946.
John Eckert and Mauchly were better at computer design than they were at the economics of running a company.
Mauchly left the company and formed Mauchly Associates of which he was president from 1959 to 1965 when he became chairman of the board.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Mauchly.html   (1378 words)

  
 John Mauchly - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mauchly accepted a teaching position at the MMoore School, which was a center for wartime computing.
Mauchly's belief in the importance of languages led him to hire Grace Murray Hopper to develop a compiler for the UNIVAC.John Mauchly has also been credited for being the first one using the verb "to program" in his 1942 paper in electronic computing, although in the context of ENIAC, not in its current meaning.
Mauchly and Eckert's patent claim on the 1946 ENIAC was ibvalidated by U.S. Federal Court decision in October, 1973 for several reasons.
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 Mauchly
John Eckert who had been one of his instructors at Moore College when Mauchly had been a student on the training course.
Mauchly wrote a report on the design of an electronic computer which would, in his opinion, be far easier to use and allow results to be obtained much more quickly than the Bush analyser.
John Eckert left the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1946.
www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Mauchly.htm   (1320 words)

  
 Super Scientists - John William Mauchly
Mauchly worked with John Eckert to build the ENIAC and UNIVAC computers.
Mauchly got his doctorate in physics before he took a defense electronics course from Eckert in 1941 at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
Mauchly had an idea to build a computer that was better than the very limited models available at the time.
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 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Post- und Telekommunikationsgeschichte E.V. - John William Mauchly
Januar 1980 in Ambler (Pennsylvania) der US-amerikanische Physiker und Ingenieur John William Mauchly.
Mauchly studierte nach Ende seiner Schulzeit von 1925 bis 1927 an der John Hopkins School in Baltimore (Maryland) Physik.
Für seine Entwicklungsarbeiten in der Computertechnik wurde Mauchly vielfach geehrt.
www.dgpt.org /DE/service/biografien/John_William_Mauchly.php   (695 words)

  
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In any case, von Neumann's abstract treatment permitted him also to confront the foundational issue of determinism vs. non-determinism and in the book he demonstrated a theorem according to which quantum mechanics could not possibly be derived by statistical approximation from a deterministic theory of the type used in classical mechanics.
The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS, previously TIMS-ORSA) is awarded annually to an individual (or group) who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.
The John von Neumann Lecture is given annually at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) by a researcher who has contributed to applied mathematics, and the chosen lecturer is also awarded a monetary prize.
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 John Mauchly
Mauchly and J Presper Eckert are the proud parents.
Mauchly was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied at Johns Hopkins University, becoming...
Mauchly had been experimenting with electronic pulse handling circuits, such as the bistable circuit (flip-flop) of W H Eccles and F W Jordan,...
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 John William Mauchly John William Mauchly 30.08.1907 – 8.01.1980 American physicist
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, for a long time believed to be the first electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
John Mauchly has also been credited for being the first one using the verb "to program" in his 1942 paper on electronic computing, although in the context of ENIAC, not in its current meanin
He was a recipient of the Philadelphia Award, the Scott Medal, the Goode Medal of AFIPS (American Federation of Information Processing Societies), the Pennsylvania Award, the Emanual R. Piore Award, the Potts Medal f the Franklin Institute and numerous other awards.
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 The First Stored Program Computer -- EDVAC
During the course of designing ENIAC, it's creators, John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr.
was subsequently documented by Johann (John) von Neumann in his paper which is now known as the First Draft.
Unfortunately, although the conceptual design for EDVAC was completed by 1946, several key members left the project to pursue their own careers, and the machine did not become fully operational until 1952.
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 Dictionary of Computers - Mauchly, John William
In 1949 Mauchly and Eckert designed a small-scale binary computer, BINAC, which was faster and cheaper to use.
Mauchly was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied at Johns Hopkins University, becoming professor of physics at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
Mauchly was a consultant to Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) 1950–59 and again from 1973, after setting up his own consulting company in 1959.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0025654.html   (344 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.
If Mauchly had initially conceived of ENIAC's architecture, it was Eckert who possessed the engineering skills to bring the idea to life.
We chose in this exhibit to focus on the career of John Mauchly, partly to reveal the historical complexities of the process of invention that can only be seen through close attention to a single individual.
www.library.upenn.edu /special/gallery/mauchly/jwmintro.html   (319 words)

  
 John Mauchly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mauchly and Eckert's patent claim on the 1946 ENIAC was invalidated by U.S. Federal Court decision in October, 1973.
The suit claimed that Mauchly borrowed a concept from John Atanasoff, who designed a machine called the ABC.
John Mauchly, nearly singlehandedly, changed the world in which we live.
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 Inventor John Mauchly Biography
After graduating from Johns Hopkins University, John W. Mauchly then joined John P. Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania in the development of ENIAC, the first practical electronic digital computer.
The contributions of an Iowa State College professor, John V. Atanasoff, who had designed and built an electronic computing device between 1937 and 1942 with the assistance of his graduate student, Clifford Berry.
While there are some doubts as to whether the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was ever fully operational, Mauchly visited Atanasoff during the summer of 1941 and had a close look at the machine.
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 Mauchly and Eckert build UNIVAC I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It almost made Mauchly and Eckert go bankrupt since they had offered to pay for all the 'extra's'.
John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, inventors of the ENIAC, also build the UNIVAC I, the world's first commercially available stored-program electronic digital computer.
Still, its influence on document design is quite small as is the case for most of the early computers.
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 Business 2.0 - Web Guide - Mauchly, John W. -e1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Describes the controversy surrounding Mauchly and Eckert's resignation from the University of Pennsylvania, the formulation of the first computer company, the Electronic Controls Company, and the company's first client, the U.S. Census Bureau.
"Mauchly and research partner Presper Eckert deserve most of the credit for inventing the modern electronic computer, credit they almost never get." The bittersweet story of John Mauchly, a 1932 Hopkins alumnus, and J. Presper Eckert.
Full details, biography, photographs, and background of John Mauchly's life and his co-inventions with J. Presper Eckert of the ENIAC and UNIVAC electronic computers.
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 Mauchly, John William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
US physicist and engineer who, in 1946, constructed the first general-purpose computer, the ENIAC, in collaboration with John Eckert.
In 1949 Mauchly and Eckert designed a small-scale binary computer, BINAC, which was faster and cheaper to use.
Mauchly was a consultant to Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) 1950-59 and again from 1973, after setting up his own consulting company 1959.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Mauchly/1.html   (189 words)

  
 The first general-purpose electronic computer -- ENIAC
was the brainchild of John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., was a monster.
For example, one of the main problems with ENIAC was that it was hard-wired; that is, it did not have any internal memory as such, but needed to be physically programmed by means of switches and dials.
summer of 1943, Mauchly and Eckert discussed the concept of creating a stored-program computer, in which an internal read-write memory would be used to store both instructions and data.
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 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Post- und Telekommunikationsgeschichte E.V. - John William Mauchly
August 1907 in Cincinnati (Ohio) der Physiker und Ingenieur John William Mauchly geboren.
Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges war Mauchly von 1944 als Berater beim Naval Ordnance Laboratory (Marineartillerie-Laboratorium) eingesetzt.
In abgeänderter Form erfanden Mauchly und Eckert 1945 den ersten allgemein einsetzbaren elektronischen Großrechner ENIAC
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 John William Mauchly | THG Lexikon
Da Mauchly 1925 ein Stipendium erhielt, war es ihm möglich, an der Johns Hopkins Universität zu studieren.
Nachdem der ENIAC fertiggestellt war, verließen Mauchly und Eckert die Moore School of Electrical Engineering, um die Firma "Electronic Controls Company" zu gründen.
Da Mauchly beim Entwurf des ENIACs viele Konzepte von John Atanasoff - ohne ihm Tribut zu zollen - übernahm, kam es zu einem Patentrechtsstreit zwischen Mauchly und Atanasoff.
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