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J. Presper Eckert, American engineer, invented the ENIAC (died 1995)
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J. Presper Eckert
American electrical engineer and computer pioneer (1919–1995)
John Adam Presper "Pres" 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
ENIAC
First electronic general-purpose digital computer
ENIAC was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all. It was Turing-complete and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)