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eckert in a newsreel from february 1946 . and mauchly examine a printout of eniac results 3 june 1995 bryn mawr , pennsylvania philadelphia , pennsylvania harry pender award -lrb- 1973 -rrb- ieee emanuel r. piore award h. -lrb- 1978 -rrb- goode memorial award -lrb- 1966 -rrb- harold 275px american april 9 , 1919 eniac j. presper eckert
 j. presper eckert electrical engineer
j. presper eckert

john adam presper `` pres '' eckert , jr. -lrb- april 9 , 1919 -- june 3 , 1995 -rrb- was an american electrical engineer and computer pioneer .
with john mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer -lrb- eniac -rrb- , presented the first course in computing topics -lrb- the moore school lectures -rrb- , 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 .
