John Presper Eckert (1919–1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Alongside John Mauchly, he co-invented the ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Eckert also designed the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer in the U.S., and holds 85 patents
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Who invented the first computer? No question that chief engineer Presper Eckert was the “sparkplug” of the ENIAC project. This is a 5 hour conversation with Eckert about his childhood inventions, his early work with counting circuits and the steps that led to the development of ENIAC. It was the first all electronic computing machine. (1991)
Listen to what he has to say about who took what ideas from whom.