J. Presper Eckert

John Adam Presper Eckert Jr. 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, 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.

9 April 1919

Born on the same birth day (9 April): Albert Hammond Jr. • Avery Schreiber • Barnaby Kay • David Gordon Green • Georg Matthias Monn • Giovanni Andrea Cornia • Jim Fowler • Johann Matthias Gesner • Joolz Denby • Juliet Cuthbert • Leo Fortune-West • Marina Zoueva • Nathaniel Branden • Ryan Williams (running back) • Sam Harris • Thomas Johann Seebeck

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