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John Mauchly was an American computer scientist (although the term did not yet exist when he did his most consequential work). His major accomplishments were:

• Creating and running the ENIAC project, the first general-purpose electroniccomputing device.
• Thereby convincing people generally that electronic computing devices were feasible, desirable, and useful.

  (The prior classified Colossus device in the UK had convinced insiders there of that, but knowledge of it was limited, although it generated numerous descendants, starting with the Manchester Baby and Manchester Mark I.)

• With a team including J.

  Presper Eckert and John von Neumann, he co-designed the EDVAC, whose design document was the inspiration for most of the first generation of computers; almost all computers now are its descendants.

• With his co-worker, J.

  Presper Eckert, he founded the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, from which several important manufacturers descended (among them Remington