J. Presper Eckert
#930
Most Influential Person
American electrical engineer and computer pioneer
Why Is J. Presper Eckert Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 , 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.
