At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

The idea of a stored-program computer was already present in the design of J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly's ENIAC, but was initially omitted so that it could be finished sooner.

On June 30, 1945, before ENIAC was made, mathematician John von Neumann distributed the paper entitled First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.

This overcame a severe limitation of ENIAC, which was the considerable time and effort required to reconfigure the computer to perform a new task.

A dozen of these devices were built before their obsolescence was obvious ; the most powerful was constructed at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, where the ENIAC was built.

The third stream of computer development was Eckert and Mauchly's ENIAC and EDVAC, which was widely publicized.

The ABC was largely forgotten until it became the focus of the lawsuit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, the ruling of which invalidated the ENIAC patent ( and several others ) as, among many reasons, having been anticipated by Atanasoff's work.

The US-built ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ) was the first electronic general-purpose computer.

ENIAC was unambiguously a Turing-complete device.

A " program " on the ENIAC, however, was defined by the states of its patch cables and switches, a far cry from the stored program electronic machines that came later.

The first actual implementation of a Turing-complete machine appeared in 1941: the program-controlled Z3 of Konrad Zuse, but the first machine explicitly designed to be Turing complete and widely appreciated as being universal was the 1946 ENIAC.

Later work confirmed that tube unreliability was not as serious an issue as generally believed ; the 1946 ENIAC, with over 17, 000 tubes, had a tube failure ( which took 15 minutes to locate ) on average every two days.

In 1948, ENIAC was moved from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, where it had been conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, to the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland.

This architecture greatly facilitated programming, and on September 16, 1948, ENIAC was first run as a stored-program computer.

This approach was made possible by his access to computers: ENIAC at Aberdeen, a new computer, MANIAC, at Princeton, and its twin, which was under construction at Los Alamos.

J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly similarly were not aware of the details of Babbage's Analytical Engine work prior to the completion of their design for the first electronic general-purpose computer, the ENIAC.

ENIAC co-inventor John Mauchly examined the ABC in June 1941, and its influence on the design of the later ENIAC machine is a matter of contention among computer historians.

An in-depth, technical discussion on ENIAC, including the thought process behind the design.

An in-depth, technical discussion on the ENIAC, including the thought process behind the design.

ENIAC inventors John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert proposed the EDVAC's construction in August 1944, and design work for the EDVAC commenced before the ENIAC was fully operational.

Eckert and Mauchly and the other ENIAC designers were joined by John von Neumann in a consulting role ; von Neumann summarized and discussed logical design developments in the 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.

Mauchly led the conceptual design while Eckert led the hardware engineering on ENIAC.

The ENIAC design was frozen in 1944 to allow construction.

The ENIAC patent, issued in 1964 was filed on June 26, 1947, and granted February 4, 1964, but the public disclosure of design details of EDVAC in the First Draft ( which were also common to ENIAC ) was later cited as one cause for the 1973 invalidation of the ENIAC patent.

The primary design consultant for the Librascope computer was Stan Frankel, a Manhattan Project veteran and one of the first programmers of ENIAC.

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were the first to patent a digital computing device, the ENIAC.

The ABC had been examined by John Mauchly in June 1941, and Isaac Auerbach, a former student of Mauchly's, alleged that it influenced his later work on ENIAC, although Mauchly denied this ( Shurkin, pg.

In 1967 Honeywell sued Sperry Rand in an attempt to break their ENIAC patents, arguing the ABC constituted prior art.

It is quite conventional in principle in past and present computing machines of the most varied types, e. g. desk multipliers, standard IBM counters, more modern relay machines, the ENIAC " ( Goldstine and von Neumann, 1946 ; p. 98 in Bell and Newell 1971 ).

In recognition of Knuth's contributions to the field of computer science, in 1990 he was awarded the one-of-a-kind academic title of Professor of The Art of Computer Programming, which has since been revised to Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming.

Sandra was asked to return her 2009 " Worst Actress of the Year " Razzie award ; however, this wasn't because of a change of heart for Bullock's performance but because Bullock personally accepted her Razzie and accidentally took the original one-of-a-kind prototype Razzie, as opposed to the cheap trinket normally handed out to celebrities.

Yankee Stadium opened during the 1923 MLB season, and at the time, it was hailed as a one-of-a-kind facility in the country for its size.

The evening was filled with one-of-a-kind Opry moments.

This one-of-a-kind prototype was a personal present by Busicom ’ s president Mr. Yoshio Kojima to Federico Faggin for his successful leadership of the design and development of the 4004 and three other memory and I / O chips ( the MCS-4 chipset ).

Also new that year was the Mary Ann Lee Conservation Carousel, featuring one-of-a-kind hand-carved wooden animals representing endangered species at the St. Louis Zoo.

This was an improvement over the calotype process, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot, which relied on paper negatives, and the daguerreotype, which produced a one-of-a-kind positive image and could not be replicated.

The introduction of the wet collodion process in the early 1850s provided the basis for a negative-positive print-making process not subject to these limitations, although it, like the Daguerreotype, was initially used to produce one-of-a-kind images — ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on black-lacquered iron sheets — rather than prints on paper.

The one-of-a-kind device — affectionately known throughout the industry as the " laff box "— was tightly secured with padlocks, stood more than two feet tall, and operated like an organ.

The one-of-a-kind device was appraised at $ 10, 000 in June 2010 on a U. S. episode of Antiques Roadshow ( U. S .) | Antiques Roadshow

The IBM 7950, also known as Harvest, was a one-of-a-kind adjunct to the Stretch computer which was installed at the US National Security Agency ( NSA ).

Although Kaiba does not believe into Ishizu's warning that history was sure to repeat itself, he is interested by her tale of the Egyptian God Cards – three powerful one-of-a-kind Duel Monsters cards that Pegasus has entrusted to her.

While creating a one-of-a-kind film in a method that had never been done before was the motivation, the practical reason for the project was to continue to develop patentable tools while demonstrating what computer animation could accomplish for the entertainment industry.

Although he had originally stated he was not interested in the role of Director-General and would turn down any approach from the BBC, he changed his mind, saying the job was a " one-of-a-kind opportunity ".

In 2010, a bottle of The Macallan 64-year-old single malt whisky in a one-of-a-kind " Lalique: Cire Perdue " crystal decanter was sold for $ 460, 000 at an auction at Sotheby ’ s in New York City.

Two other notable aircraft put in storage at Pyote was the B-17D " Swoose " ( arrived 18 January 1952-Departed December 1953 ) which was the only B-17 to survive the bombing of Clark Air Base on 8 December 1941 and manage to escape from the Philippines, and the XB-42 Mixmaster, a one-of-a-kind aircraft.

The one-of-a-kind Blüthner piano of particular interest was the special lightweight instrument, made for use on the Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg.

The Starfire name was first used by Oldsmobile on a one-of-a-kind dream car that was shown at the 1953 Motorama auto show.