John Mauchly

John Mauchly
Born	(1907-08-30)August 30, 1907 Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Died	January 8, 1980(1980-01-08) (aged 72) Ambler, Pennsylvania, US
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Known for	ENIAC, UNIVAC, Mauchly's sphericity test
Awards	Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1966) Harold Pender Award (1973) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1978)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Ursinus College University of Pennsylvania

John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

Together, Mauchly and Eckert started the first computer company, the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), and pioneered fundamental computer concepts, including the stored program, subroutines, and programming languages. Their work, as exposed in the widely read First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945) and as taught in the Moore School Lectures (1946), influenced an explosion of computer development in the late 1940s all over the world.