Essays Tagged: "John Mauchly"

The Impact that Information Technology has on Society.

n do things that you could never o before. This was all triggered by the first computer.During 1945 John von Neumann wrote "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" in which he outlined the architecture ... nd the world.In February of 1946, the public got its first glimpse of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries.Star ...

(5 pages) 413 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

The History of Computers

ry weapons' systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchly and their associates at the University of Pennsylvania decided to bu ... ic digital computer and was used in many applications from 1946 to 1955. (Dolotta, 50)Mathematician John von Neumann was very interested in the ENIAC. In 1945, he began a theoretical study of computat ...

(10 pages) 64 0 4.3 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computers.

tor called the Z1, the first binary computer with high-capacity memory for calculating. Until 1946, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert invented the ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculato ...

(3 pages) 56 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

The Social Effects Of The Computer

ng that vacuum tubes could be used for high-speed data processing (Laudon 44). The U.S Army awarded John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert a contract to build a computer for them to help in calculating fi ...

(6 pages) 37 0 5.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Computers In Society

tes census. This computer, which was the first to use a compiler and store programs was invented by John Mauchly and J.Eckert. A couple of years later, the United Kingdom came out with the first busin ... finitely help me greatly with future experiences in the years to come.Works Cited 1. Dodge, John. "When the world is your workplace." PC Week May 27, 1996: V13 P3. 2. G ...

(5 pages) 27 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Impact of Science and Technology on Society: Virtual Marketing

st computer was named "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), developed in 1946 by John W.Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. After ENIAC came the UNIVAC 1. UNIVAC 1 was the first universa ... rent sectors usage of internet marketing.Janoschka A., (2004), Online Advertising, Web Advertising, John Benjamins Publishing Inc. p.43-50.This book presents both forms of marketing that is internet a ...

(8 pages) 11 0 0.0 May/2013

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing