Eckert

[ek-ert]

noun

1. John Presper 1919–95, U.S. engineer and computer pioneer.

Eckert

/ ˈɛkət /

noun

1. John Presper. 1919–95, US electronics engineer: built the first electronic computer with John W. Mauchly in 1946

Eckert

1. American engineer who contributed to the development of ENIAC (Electronic Numeral Integrator and Calculator), the first electronic computer (1946). He later helped develop one of the first computers to be sold commercially.

Example Sentences

Gardner: It’s so special to hear that people enjoyed it, because I had an experience when I was at the Groundlings where I broke in a sketch too many times with Chris Eckert.

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In 2020, in honor of his data center work, Barroso received the Eckert-Mauchly Award, named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who built one of the world’s first computers in the 1940s.

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The five employees killed were Joshua Barrick, 40, a senior vice president; Deana Eckert, 57, an executive administrative officer; Tommy Elliott, 63, also a senior vice president; Juliana Farmer, 45, a loan analyst; and Jim Tutt Jr., 64, a commercial real estate market executive.

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"We're greatly improving our predictions of guide RNA with this research," Eckert said.

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"This paper even has implications across the human scale," Eckert said.

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