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 • Dec. 15, 2023

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 • Dec. 28, 2016

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

From Time • Mar. 31, 2016

Many of the key partnerships in the digital age paired people with different skills and personalities, such as John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2014

After the war, Ms. Bartik joined the Eniac designers, John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, in their effort to develop the Univac, an early commercial computer, which was introduced in 1951.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2011