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John Mauchly
KindPerson
Born1907
Died1980
StatusDead
Fieldcomputing
Sourcewww.seas.upenn.edu ↗

Co-designed ENIAC and UNIVAC, and sketched Short Code (1949) — among the earliest attempts at a higher-level programming notation.

Worked at Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation
Created ENIAC Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation Short Code UNIVAC I

Conceived ENIAC's design and co-built it with Eckert; wrote Short Code (1949), the first executed high-level language, for BINAC.\n\nHis 1947 lecture series sparked the stored-program community; the Mauchly Award in architecture is named for him.

Sources

  1. seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/eniac/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mauchly