biography
| name: |
Mauchly, John W(illiam)
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pronunciation:
[mawklee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–80)
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| biography:
| Physicist and inventor, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He studied physics at Johns Hopkins University, and after a few years in teaching joined J Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania (1943) in the development of ENIAC, one of the first modern computers. Following ENIAC they built EDVAC, an Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, and finally UNIVAC, a Universal Automatic Computer, first used in 1951 by the US Census Bureau. The success of these machines played a large part in launching the computer revolution in the second half of the 20th-c. |
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