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| | Nat' Academies Press, Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 2 (1984) |
 | | John Mauchly was a pioneer of automatic computing, particularly in the design and construction of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the world's first all-electronic computer, and of the Binary Automatic Computer (BINAC) and the Universal Automatic Com- puter (UNIVAC). | | | Mauchly and Eckert in 1946 who developed the first operational all-electronic computer, the ENIAC, the precursor of all that was to follow. | | | John Mauchly headed the UNIVAC Applications and Research Center from 1953 to 1959, and among other applications developed was the network method of project analysis, now known as the critical path method. |
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http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309034825/html/187.html
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| | 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. | | | 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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http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/mauchly-eckert.html
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| | Super Scientists - John William Mauchly |
| | Mauchly worked with John Eckert to build the ENIAC and UNIVAC computers. | | | Mauchly had an idea to build a computer that was better than the very limited models available at the time. | | | Mauchly got his doctorate in physics before he took a defense electronics course from Eckert in 1941 at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. |
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http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/mauchly.html
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| | Penn Special Collections-Mauchly Exhibition 7 |
| | Mauchly may have continued to draw ideas from Atanasoff's further reflections on electronic computing, but it was ultimately Mauchly who, working with Eckert, designed the first general- purpose electronic computer. | | | John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer | | | The controversy has been over the extent to which Mauchly borrowed Atanasoff's ideas, and whether Atanasoff was the true inventor of the modern electronic computer. |
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http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwm7.html
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| | John Eckert and Mauchly were better at computer design than they were at the economics of running a company. | | | Mauchly and John Eckert then collaborated in the construction of the Electronic Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). | | | 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. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mauchly.html
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| | Antonelli |
| | John and Kay Mauchly lived on a farm in Amber Pennsylvannia and Kay continued to work with with her husband on the design of computer programs for the later BINAC and UNIVAC computers. | | | In 1948 McNulty married John Mauchly, one of the two designers of the ENIAC computer. | | | The ENIAC computer (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) which McNulty refers to in the above quote was being constructed by John Mauchly and John Eckert in the Moore School of Engineering during the war years. |
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http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Antonelli.html
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| | Invent Now Hall of Fame Search Inventor Profile |
| | John Mauchly co-invented the first practical electronic digital computer. | | | Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team to construct the computer, with Mauchly developing the mathematical theory. | | | In 1946, Mauchly and Eckert left the Moore School to begin the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation. |
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http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/182.html
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| | Mauchly Page |
| | 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. | | | Mauchly turned his research interests to developing analog electronic research instruments and eventually electronic calculating machines. | | | In 1927, feeling that engineering was too mundane, Mauchly used a special provision allowing exceptional undergraduate students to enroll directly in a Ph.D. program prior to completing their undergraduate degrees to move to the graduate physics program. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~cwallis/wallis/computability/Mauchly.html
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| | Amado Velador's web project |
| | John W. Mauchly had a successful career, he designed and oversaw the development of the first large-scale general purpose electronic computer. | | | While Eckert designed new computer systems, Mauchly was to find clients to it. | | | Therefore,The Company was officially incorporated as the Eckert & Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) in December of 1948; although, they had an experimental computer in their laboratories, the standard commercial system required improvements in the design and reliability. |
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http://www.geocities.com/zaktks2003/webproject.html
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| | John Atanasoff |
| | Mauchly had also watched demonstrations of the operations of the computer, or at least viewed some phases of the Atanasoff-Berry computer functioning. | | | Mauchly also asked whether Atanasoff would mind if he used some of Atanasoff's ideas in a computer that he himself was intending to build. | | | Mauchly was allowed to read 35 pages of a manuscript describing the design and operation of the Atanasoff-Berry computer. |
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http://www.johnatanasoff.com/the_process.php
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| | NSF Ethics and Computing Workshop |
| | John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer | | | The computer as we know it today emanates from the work of John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert to develop the ENIAC which was completed in 1946. | | | John Vincent Atanasoff (USA), with Clifford Berry, for his creation of a special purpose machine that contained the major components of a modern computer at Iowa State College during 1937-1942. |
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http://www.nd.edu/~kwb/nsf-ufe/janleeproject.html
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| | John W. Mauchly - Penn Printout, Mar 96 |
| | Mauchly's career and achievements are the subject of a major exhibition in the Rosenwald Gallery of the Van Pelt Library, which is being mounted as part of the Year of the Computer activities. | | | It was one of a number of projects that fueled his interest in computing machines, and one of several problems that the ENIAC was to have solved. | | | On one issue, though, the exhibit is straightforward and insistent: It was the genius of Mauchly, his singularly unique contribution, to have designed not only the first electronic digital computer, but to have grasped intuitively the many related functions such a device could perform. |
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http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v12/4/mauchly.html
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| | BBC ICT Portal |
| | Mauchly's interests were in electrical engineering and he looked for ways to develop electrical circuits for computation. | | | Later at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Mauchly and assistant John Eckert collaborated in the construction of the Electronic Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), which was completed in 1946. | | | John Mauchly received a PhD in Physics from John Hopkins University in 1932. |
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http://www.open2.net/ictportal/timeline/halloffame/mauchly.htm
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| | The Trial |
| | Mauchly was asked to identify several devices: a harmonic analyzer, a cryptographic device, and another device which his lawyer, DeLone, thought explained Mauchly's early concept of a binary counter planned while he was at Ursinus College and in the months before he met Atanasoff. | | | Mauchly identified these papers to demonstrate evidence that he was thinking in terms of an electronic digital calculating device and did not derive his ideas from his contacts with Atanasoff. | | | He had also ruled that John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, who had for more than twenty-five years been feted, trumpeted, and honored as the co-inventors of the first electronic digital computer, were not entitled to the patent upon which that honor was based. |
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http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Trial.html
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| | John V. Atanasoff: Obituary |
| | In the mid-1940s, they were the first to patent a digital computing device, which they called the ENIAC (electronic numerical integrator and computer). | | | Mauchly stayed several days at the Atanasoff home, where he was briefed extensively about the computer project and saw it demonstrated. | | | Dr. Atanasoff, whose pioneering work ultimately was acknowledged during lengthy patent litigation in the 1970s, never made money off his invention, which was the first computer to separate data processing from memory. |
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http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/other/museums/computing/atanasoff.html
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| | John Vincent Atanasoff |
| | John Vincent Atanasoff gave birth to the field of electronic computing. | | | The ENIAC is falsely considered by most people as the world's first electronic digital computer designed by Dr. Mauchly and Dr. Eckert. | | | They talked for some time and Dr. Mauchly was very intrigued with Dr. Atanasoff's electronic digital computer. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/do_Atanasoff.html
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| | Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold: Chapter Four |
| | Mauchly tried making a few electronic circuits for himself, and he began to see a way that they could be used for computation. | | | John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert have been properly credited with the invention of ENIAC, but before they implemented the key ideas of electronic digital computing machines, a man named Atanasoff in Iowa, in the 1930s, built small, crude, but functioning prototypes of electronic calculating machines. | | | John von Neumann's role in the invention of computation began nearly twenty years before the ENIAC project. |
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http://www.well.com/user/hlr/texts/tft4.html
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| | John Mauchly and Presper Eckert |
| | John Mauchly (1907-1980) - left - and John Presper Eckert (1919-1995), in 1946, developed the ENIAC I (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). |
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http://www.alpcentauri.info/mauchly_eckert.htm
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| | The History of Computers: John W. Mauchly |
| | When he joined the faculty at the Moore School as an assitant professor he hoped to interest some of the professors with his ideas of the digital computer, but they were buried in the war effort. | | | There was, however, one person who was not only prepared to listen to Mauchly's ideas, but was himself very interested in the whole idea of building an electronic computer. | | | The Work on the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) began on May 31, 1943. |
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http://www2.fht-esslingen.de/studentisches/Computer_Geschichte/grp4/mauchly.html
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| | The Invention and History of the ENIAC Computer - Mauchly and Eckert |
| | Eckert and Mauchly both received the IEEE Computer Society Pioneer Award in 1980. | | | On May 31, 1943, the military commission on the new computer began; Mauchly was the chief consultant and Eckert was the chief engineer. | | | The Ballistics Research Laboratory, or BRL (the branch of the military responsible for calculating the tables), heard about John Mauchly's research at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. |
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http://penguicon.sourceforge.net/comphist/links/timelines/inventors/html/aa060298.htm
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| | Johns Hopkins Magazine -- November 1999 |
| | In 1946, Eckert and Mauchly still hadn't filed for a patent on their ENIAC inventions, but they had made a standard deal with Penn before the project started: They could file for patents, and Penn and other schools would be granted a license to build and use computers for noncommercial purposes. | | | Antonelli, before her marriage to Mauchly, was one of the original "computers" who worked on firing tables. | | | In August 1942, Mauchly summarized his ideas in a seven-page proposal titled "The Use of High-Speed Vacuum Tube Devices for Calculation." At that time, everyone who was anyone--at Harvard, MIT, Bell Labs--was working on mechanical, analog computational devices. |
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http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/1199web/invent.html
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| | John Mauchly - |
| | John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist and computer engineer who, along with J. | | | These creations are on film in Mauchly: The Computer and the Skateboard --[1], a biography on John Mauchly. | | | Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, long held to be the first electronic digital computer, and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. |
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http://www.grohol.com/psypsych/John_Mauchly
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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. | | | US physicist and engineer who, in 1946, constructed the first general-purpose computer, the ENIAC, in collaboration with John Eckert. | | | In 1941 he moved to the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, and became principal consultant on the ENIAC project. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0025654.html
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| | IEEEVM: John W. Mauchly |
| | Mauchly, remarried to Kathleen McNulty, continued to work on computers even after the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation was absorbed by Remington Rand Corporation. | | | Although the project took several years and was not completed before the war ended, Mauchly and Eckert were sure there were other uses for computers. | | | Recognized as a computer visionary, Mauchly died during heart surgery in 1980. |
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http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/people.php?taid=&id=1234639&lid=1
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| | John von Neumann |
| | The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology." The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or entrepreneurial, and need not have been made immediately prior to the date of the award. | | | Any computer scientist who reviews the formal obituaries of John von Neumann of the period shortly after his death will be struck by the lack of recognition of his involvement in the field of computers and computing. | | | A retrospective examination of the development [3] of this idea reveals that the concept was discussed by J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Arthur Burks, and others in connection with their plans for a successor machine to the ENIAC. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html
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| | . : Computer Science : . John Mauchly, Presper Eckert |
| | Designed to handle business data, UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer), Eckert and Mauchly's third model, found many uses in commerce and may be said to have started the computer boom. | | | June 3, 1995, Bryn Mawr, Pa.), American engineer and coinventor of the first general-purpose electronic computer, a digital machine that was the prototype for most computers in use today. | | | In 1948 Eckert and Mauchly established a computer-manufacturing firm; a year later, they introduced BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer), which stored information on magnetic tape rather than on punched cards. |
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http://1tee-prevez.pre.sch.gr/2003/IT_History/English/Mauchly-Eckert.html
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| | The Computing Revolution |
| | John Mauchly was already a famous computer scientist when UNIVAC I was built. | | | After the War, Mauchly and Eckert went into the computer business. | | | During World War II, he and his colleague Pres Eckert had built a computer for the Army that could do complex calculations. |
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http://www.mos.org/exhibits/ComputingRevolution/univac/5a.html
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| | Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand Records |
| | In 1946, Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School and formed their own commercial computer enterprise, the Electronic Control Company, which was later incorporated as the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. | | | Mauchly, Kathleen R., "John Mauchly's Early Years," Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. | | | Atanasoff, John Vincent, "Advent of Electronic Digital Computing," Annals of the History of |
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http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00001.html
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| | Sperry-Univac Company Records1935-1985 |
| | These files trace Mauchly's interest in computing, his early theoretical work, and the genisis of the ENIAC project. | | | John Mauchly, however, conceived of a computer with far wider applicability. | | | It was Eckert and Mauchly who in fact developed the first working computer. |
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http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/1825sp.htm
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| | The first general-purpose electronic computer -- ENIAC |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Around the beginning of 1944, Eckert wrote an internal memo on the subject and, in August 1944, Mauchly and Eckert proposed the building of another machine called the electronic discrete variable automatic computer (EDVAC). |
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http://www.maxmon.com/1943bad.htm
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| | NetLingo: An Interview With John Presper Eckert |
| | So it was in this enviroment that [John William] Mauchly wrote a short write-up describing how he thought an electronic device might be built to do this: not in any great detail, just suggesting that we'd have places to hold numbers and we'd add numbers from one place and another, and we could integrate equations. | | | Only in the sense that we started out to try to do the same problem that the differential analyzer was doing at that time, which was the ballistics equation, but our ideas for this machine were much more based upon ideas from mechanical desk calculators. | | | DKA: So you and Mauchly discussed the ideas, and then he wrote a memorandum to solve this problem. |
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http://www.netlingo.com/more/eckertinterview.html
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| | John Mauchly |
| | John W. Mauchly The trail that led to the design, creation and operation of the first large-scale computer designed for general numerical computations originates with John W. Mauchly. | | | The inspiration for the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, occurred in the early 1930’s when Mauchly, long frustrated with the slow pace of traditional calculators, began thinking of building his own calculating machine. | | | When his idea was realized in 1946, the creation of this calculating machine would forever change the world. |
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http://www.radessays.com/viewpaper/77275/Abortion.html
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| | 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. | | | We attempt in this exhibition to portray a history of the emergence of modern computing as seen through the eyes of one of its two principal inventors, John W. Mauchly (1907-1980), who worked at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering between 1941 and 1946. | | | Recommended texts, currently in print, to learn more about ENIAC and the development of the personal computer: |
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http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwmintro.html
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| | Biograpy |
| | John Mauchly was an inventor who with other fellow inventors created the eniac computer. | | | John Mauchly was the co-inventor of this machine. | | | He was one of the people who designed it and programmed it. |
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http://lufkinroad.wcpss.net/staff/vetterb/3-4B/Eniac%20Computer/Eniac%20Computer/Biography.htm
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| | A piece of Net history on the auction block CNET News.com |
| | One of the pieces that will likely garner the highest bidding of the lot is J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly's "Outline of plans for development of electronic computers," which Christie's expects to sell for between $50,000 and $70,000. | | | Among the items offered in the auction are documents detailing the development of the first programmable computer, the first known software, the mathematical theory of data communications and the origins of telecommunications. | | | The original copy of the eight-page manuscript, written in 1946, is considered to be the first business plan written specifically for the computer industry by the two creators of the BINAC, the first operational electronic computer produced in America. |
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http://news.com.com/A+piece+of+Net+history+on+the+auction+block/2100-1026_3-5560386.html?part=rss&tag=5560386&subj=news.1026.5
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| | Computer geeks get their own auction at Christie's - Feb. 22, 2005 |
| | Eckert and Mauchly developed the first commercially available computer and founded the world's first electric computer company. | | | The plans for the first electronic computer produced in America and the electric computer company are estimated at $50,000 to $70,000. | | | One item sure to get attention will be "Outline of plans for development of electronic computers" by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. |
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http://www.cnn.com/money/2005/02/22/technology/cyberspace_sale/index.htm?cnn=yes
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| | Boston.com / Business / Technology / Relics of Computer History in New York Auction |
| | The plan was drawn up by pioneers J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, whose list of possible users of their machine is remarkably prescient, if limited. | | | Also on offer is a 1946 business plan for a company to design and build a "multi-purpose rapid computing machine of moderate cost." |
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http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/18/relics_of_computer_history_in_new_york_auction
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| | Super Scientists - John Presper Eckert Jr. |
| | Following ENIAC, Eckert and Mauchly developed UNIVAC, the Universal Automatic Computer, which was the first computer that people could buy in the United States. | | | Eckert, from Pennsylvania, worked with John Mauchly to build the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, called ENIAC. | | | It was 1,000 times faster than the processors that came before it. |
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| | The creation of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) by Mauchly and Eckert ushered in the age of electronic computing. | | | With its 18,000 vacuum tubes, ENIAC was operational for ten years, 1945-1955. |
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http://www.computerhalloffame.org/inductees/2004/mauchley.htm
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| | Asaf Goldschmidt and Atsushi Akera, "John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer," http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwmintro.html (Penn Library, University of Pennsylvania, accessed 2004 Sep 30). | | | John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "John William Mauchly," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Mauchly.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13) |
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| | Learn more about John Mauchly in the online encyclopedia. |
| | John William Mauchly (1907 - January 8, 1980) was a computer engineer who, along with J. | | | Enter a phrase or search word in the box below. | | | Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get. |
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