Birth Name:

J. Presper Eckert

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Apr 09, 1919

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Age:

105

Zodiac Sign:

Aries

Astrology Data:

Sun

18°

Ari

45'

About J. Presper Eckert

John Adam Presper Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay-line memory.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Eckert, a co-inventor of the ENIAC, discusses its development at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering; describes difficulties in securing patent rights for the ENIAC and the problems posed by the circulation of John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of the Report on EDVAC, which placed the ENIAC inventions in the public domain. Interview by Nancy Stern, October 28, 1977.

• Oral history interview with Carl Chambers, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Describes the interactions among the ENIAC staff, and focuses on the personalities and working relationships of Mauchly and Eckert.

• A Tribute to Dr. J. Presper Eckert Co-Inventor of ENIAC. 2000 Daniel F. McGrath Jr.

• ENIAC museum at the University of Pennsylvania

• Q&A: A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert

• 1989 interview of Eckert by Alexander Randall 5th, published February 23, 2006 on KurzweilAI.net. Includes Eckert's reflections on the creation of ENIAC.

• Interview with Eckert Transcript of a video interview with Eckert by David Allison for the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution on February 2, 1988. An in-depth, technical discussion on the ENIAC, including the thought process behind the design.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for J. Presper Eckert: Sun 18 Aries, Moon 14 Leo, Mercury 16 Aries, Venus 20 Taurus, Mars 25 Aries, Jupiter 7 Cancer, Saturn 21 Leo, Uranus 0 Pisces, Neptune 6 Leo, Pluto 4 Cancer, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Sun Trine Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Uranus, Venus Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Square Saturn, Venus Semi Square Pluto, Mars Trine Saturn, Jupiter Semi Square Saturn, Jupiter Semi Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Conjunct Pluto, Saturn Semi Square Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

Categories related to J. Presper Eckert: Deaths from leukemia, Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania, 1995 deaths, April 9 births, Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, William Penn Charter School alumni, Scientists from Philadelphia, National Medal of Science laureates, Computer designers, Computer hardware engineers, 1919 births, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni, Burroughs Corporation people, Howard N. Potts Medal recipients, Unisys

Photo attribution: U.S. Census Bureau, Copied from English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UNIVAC_1_demo.jpg