Mauchly

American  

[mahk-lee] / ˈmɑk li /

noun

1. John William, 1907–80, U.S. physicist and coinventor of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer 1946.

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Example Sentences

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.

From Seattle Times

Mauchly was investigated by the FBI and denied a security clearance for several years.

From Salon

Another Red Scare target was John Mauchly, a chief designer of the first American electronic digital computers and a founder of the computer company UNIVAC.

From Salon

The study, originally expected to take six months, took longer than expected and Eckert and Mauchly didn’t start building the machine until 1948.

From Time

Eckert and Mauchly continued their work on UNIVAC, now as a division of Remington Rand.

From Time