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.

A dragon of the ' Cliffside ' dragon colony, whose body was initially inhabited by Jim Eckert until Jim could bring his ' george ' form into the medieval world.

The company was initially called the Electronic Control Company, changing its name to Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation when it was incorporated.

Built under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC's development and construction lasted from 1943 to full operation at the end of 1945.

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.

ENIAC was conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania.

* Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

Eckert, a co-inventor of ENIAC, discusses its development at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering ; describes difficulties in securing patent rights for ENIAC and the problems posed by the circulation of John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of the Report on EDVAC, which placed the ENIAC inventions in the public domain.

Travis describes the ENIAC project at the University of Pennsylvania ( 1941 – 46 ), the technical and leadership abilities of chief engineer Eckert, the working relations between John Mauchly and Eckert, the disputes over patent rights, and their resignation from the university.

Both Eckert and Mauchly left the Moore School in March 1946 over a dispute involving assignment of claims on intellectual property developed at the University.

In that year, the University of Pennsylvania adopted a new patent policy to protect the intellectual purity of the research it sponsored, which would have required Eckert and Mauchly to assign all their patents to the University had they stayed beyond March.

Eckert and Mauchly's agreement with the University of Pennsylvania was that Eckert and Mauchly retained the patent rights to the ENIAC but the University could license it to the government and non-profit organizations.

* Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

Eckert, a co-inventor of the ENIAC, discusses its development at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering ; describes difficulties in securing patent rights for the ENIAC and the problems posed by the circulation of John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of the Report on EDVAC, which placed the ENIAC inventions in the public domain.

Its completion was delayed because of a dispute over patent rights between Eckert and Mauchly and the University of Pennsylvania, resulting in Eckert and Mauchly's resignation and departure to form the Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation and taking most of the senior engineers with them.

* Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

* Oral history interview with J. Presper Eckert at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Eckert, a co-inventor of the ENIAC, discusses its development at the University of Pennsylvania and the interaction of the personnel at the Moore School.

Eckert and Mauchly, though they had started the design of EDVAC at the University of Pennsylvania, chose to leave and start EMCC, the first computer company.

Eckert and Mauchly built the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ) at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering between 1943 and 1946.

* February 14 – 15 – ENIAC, the first non-classified all-electronic Turing complete computer, built under the direction of J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, is announced and dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Eckert, a co-inventor of the ENIAC, discusses its development at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering ; describes difficulties in securing patent rights for the ENIAC and the problems posed by the circulation of John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of the Report on EDVAC, which placed the ENIAC inventions in the public domain.

With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer ( ENIAC ), presented the first course in computing topics ( the Moore School Lectures ), founded the first commercial computer company ( the Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation ), and designed the first commercial computer in the U. S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.

At the Moore School, Eckert participated in research on radar timing, made improvements to the speed and precision of the Moore School's differential analyzer, and in 1941 assisted in teaching a summer course in electronics under the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training ( ESMWT ) offered through the Moore School by the United States Department of War.

Some computer historians — and Eckert himself — believed that the widely-adopted term " von Neumann architecture " should properly be known as the " Eckert Architecture ," since the stored-program concept central to the von Neumann architecture had already been developed at the Moore School by the time von Neumann arrived on the scene in 1944-1945.

There he met J. Presper Eckert, a recent Moore School graduate.

A 1946 patent rights dispute with the university led Eckert and Mauchly to depart the Moore School to form the Electronic Control Company, later renamed Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation ( EMCC ), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wilkes obtained a copy of John von Neumann's prepress description of the EDVAC, a successor to the ENIAC under construction by Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Shortly thereafter, his parents John and Anna Margaret ( nee Heil ) Eckert moved to Erie County, PA where they raised their four sons on a farm in Albion, PA. Wallace graduated from Albion High School in a class of six boys and eight girls.

* Moore School faculty John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert founded the first computer company, which produced the UNIVAC computer.

By the spring of 1946, Eckert and Mauchly had procured a U. S. Army contract for the University of Pennsylvania and were already designing the EDVAC — the successor machine to the ENIAC — at the university's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Eckert hired a staff that included a number of the engineers from the Moore School, and the company launched an ambitious program to design and manufacture large-scale computing machines.

* Eckert Intermediate School ( Opened 1994 ) ( Unincorporated )

Goldstine, Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert and Arthur Burks began to study the development of the new machine in the hopes of correcting the deficiencies of the ENIAC.

Practice theory, as developed by social thinkers such as Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens and Michel de Certeau, and especially the notion of the community of practice as developed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger has been influentially applied to the study of the language community by linguists such as William Hanks and Penelope Eckert

* A semiconductor firm started in Silicon Valley in 1972 ( mentioned on page 178 of the book " Crystals, electrons, transistors: from scholar's study to industrial research ", written by Michael Eckert and Helmut Schubert and published by the American Institute of Physics in 1990, and on the documentary " Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy ", broadcast by BBC Two on December 14, 2011 )

Shortly after his patent, Ritty became overwhelmed with the responsibilities of running two businesses, so he sold all of his interests in the cash register business to Jacob H. Eckert of Cincinnati, a china and glassware salesman, who formed the National Manufacturing Company.

For a time the two companies operated as independent units within Remington, with ERA focusing on scientific and military customers, while Eckert – Mauchly's UNIVACs were sold to business customers.

The buyers were a group of investors including Jacob H. Eckert of Cincinnati, a china and glassware salesman who formed the National Manufacturing Company, and John and Frank Patterson, who were then in the coal and railroad business.

In 1940, at age 21, Eckert applied for his first patent, " Light Modulating Methods and Apparatus ".

* Arthur L. Norberg, Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert – Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957 ( MIT Press, 2005 ).

* Oral history interview with Frank C. Mullaney at the Charles Babbage Institute-discusses Engineering Research Associates ( ERA ), especially the Atlas ( ERA 1101 ) computer, and successors ; John L. Hill ; the acquisition of ERA by Remington Rand, J. Presper Eckert, and the formation of Control Data Corporation

The Captain orders Holman to forcibly remove Eckert and Jameson, but Holman refuses the order and announces his intent to stay at the mission with them.

The first sale, to the Census Bureau, was marked with a formal ceremony on March 31, 1951, at the Eckert – Mauchly Division's factory at 3747 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia.

Eckert died in his sleep on July 7, 2011 in Corona, Calif at the age of 80.

Joe Hill: 16 Actions for Orchestra, Voice and Soloist, which premiered at Meany Hall in Seattle, features the Northwest Sinfonia and guest soloists Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb, Danny Barnes, and Rinde Eckert.

Jed Eckert, his brother Matt, and their friends Robert, Danny, Daryl, and Aardvark, flee into the wilderness after hastily equipping themselves at Robert's father's sporting goods store.