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John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics, founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the me…
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science · American electrical engineer and computer pioneer (1919–1995) · electrical engineer · inventor · computer scientist · engineer · physicist · also J. Presper Eckert, John Presper Eckert, Eckert
Born 6 April 1919 · Died 3 June 1995 · Q457906
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“tell whether von Neumann was really a genius by his first question. If this was about the logical structure of the machine, he would believe in von Neumann, otherwise not. Of course this was von Neumann’s first query.”
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Published “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,683 times.
Published “ProTox-II: a webserver for the prediction of toxicity of chemicals” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 2,913 times.
Published “Evaluation of off-target and on-target scoring algorithms and integration into the guide RNA selection tool CRISPOR” in Genome Biology — cited 1,628 times.
Published “Two Phase 3 Trials of Dupilumab versus Placebo in Atopic Dermatitis” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,861 times.
Published “CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III” in Nature — cited 2,282 times.
Published “Dendritic Function of Tau Mediates Amyloid-β Toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Models” in Cell — cited 1,639 times.
Published “The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider” in Journal of Instrumentation — cited 1,619 times.
Published “The Path Forward for Biofuels and Biomaterials” in Science — cited 5,019 times.
Published “Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks” in Science — cited 4,599 times.
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2002).
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Was inducted, posthumously, into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Published “Fast solvent screening via quantum chemistry: COSMO‐RS approach” in AIChE Journal — cited 1,675 times.
Died 1995-06-03.
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Published “Effect of Hydroxyurea on the Frequency of Painful Crises in Sickle Cell Anemia” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,917 times.
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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Eckert retired from Unisys but continued to act as a consultant for the company
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Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1980).
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Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1978).
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Awarded Harold Pender Award (1973).
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Won National Medal of Science (1969).
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"For pioneering and continuing contributions in creating, developing, and improving the high-speed electronic digital computer", Eckert was awarded the National Medal of Science
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Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1966).
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Awarded John Scott Award (1961).
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“The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society”
Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation ran into financial troubles and was acquired by Remington Rand Corporation
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Won Howard N. Potts Medal (1949).
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Was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others
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Studied at University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science (1937–1943).
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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
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At age 21, Eckert applied for his first patent, "Light Modulating Method and Apparatus"
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Transferred to Penn's Moore School of Electrical Engineering
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Born 1919-04-06.
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