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eckert in a newsreel from february 1946 . and mauchly examine a printout of eniac results 8 january 1980 ambler , pennsylvania cincinnati , ohio 150px american physics ursinus college university of pennsylvania 30 august 1907 eniac , univac harry pender award -lrb- 1973 -rrb- ieee emanuel r. piore award h. -lrb- 1978 -rrb- goode memorial award -lrb- 1966 -rrb- harold john mauchly
 john mauchly johns hopkins university
john mauchly

john william mauchly -lrb- august 30 , 1907 -- january 8 , 1980 -rrb- 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 they started the first computer company , the eckert-mauchly computer corporation -lrb- emcc -rrb- , 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 '' -lrb- 1945 -rrb- and as taught in the moore school lectures -lrb- 1946 -rrb- , influenced an explosion of computer development in the late 1940s all over the world .
