# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-presper-eckert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:34:17.529Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/j-presper-eckert"
name: "J. Presper Eckert"
slug: "j-presper-eckert"
description: "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 mercury delay-line memory."
tagline: "American electrical engineer and computer pioneer (1919-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ARL_ENIAC_05_(cropped)_-_John_Presper_Eckert.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1919-04-06"
deathDate: "1995-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump