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Who made the first electronic computer ENIAC?
Question

Who made the first electronic computer ENIAC?

A.

Van Neumann

B.

Joseph M Jacquard

C.

Jay Presper Eckert

D.

Both (A) and (B)

Correct option is C

The correct answer is (c) Jay Presper Eckert

Explanation:

  • ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
  • It was designed and built by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Completed in 1945, it was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.
  • It occupied a large room (about 1800 square feet) and used thousands of vacuum tubes.
  • ENIAC was significantly faster than the electromechanical computers of its time.

Information Booster:
  • John von Neumann joined the project later and contributed to the concept of the stored-program computer.
  • ENIAC was originally designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army.

Additional Knowledge:
Van Neumann (Option a)
  • Famous for the 'Von Neumann Architecture' which is the basis of most modern computers.

Joseph M Jacquard (Option b)
  • Developed the Jacquard Loom, which used punched cards to control patterns in weaving (early concept of programming).

So the correct answer is (c)

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