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J. Presper Eckert was attending the University of Pennsylvania in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering when, as an undergraduate, he became interested in computing. Like so many other students, he was bothered
J. Presper Eckert Background. J. Presper Eckert, born April 9, 1919, attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received both a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering, in 1941 and 1943 respectively. He received an honorary D.Sc. from the same university in 1964.
Jun 3, 1995 · Biography. J Presper Eckert Jr attended the William Penn Carter School in Germanstown. In 1937, after graduating from school, he entered the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania from where he graduated in 1941. Eckert, an outstanding electrical engineering student, was given a post as an instructor at the ...
J. PRESPER ECKERT. 1919–1995. BY LEO L. BERANEK. J OHN PRESPER ECKERT, or as he preferred, J. “Pres” Eckert, was born April 9, 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received the bachelor of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1941. His 1943 master of science degree in electrical engineering was from the University’s ...
The story of Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert shows how the convergence of mathematical minds, research universities, and laboratories in the U.S. An aspiring meteorologist and a recent college graduate teamed up to design and build the ENIAC—the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer—in the secure environment of the ...
J. Presper Eckert was attending the University of Pennsylvania in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering when, as an undergraduate, he became interested in computing. Like so many other students, he was bothered by the fact that his statistics homework required hours of time-consuming use of a calculator to answer his professor's questions.
J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995) <p>An inveterate electronics tinkerer, Philadelphia native J. Presper Eckert had worked for TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth while still in high school. Eckert became ENIAC’s chief engineer on his 24th birthday.</p>.
