First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who between 1943 and 1946 collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
First granted in 1979, it was named after John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who collaborated between 1943 and 1946 on designing and building the first large-scale electronic computer, known as ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.