1. John Mauchly
This was the birth of "parallel processing" which is the basis of today's supercomputers" (upenn). ... Vacuum tubes were traditionally considered to be unreliable, and with the machine at optimum speed, the chance for a faulty tube to mess up the process was 1.8 billion chances each second. ... IBM punch card readers and printers were used to deliver data into out of the machine" (Keiger). ... While they were working on ENIAC Mauchly and Eckert were already thinking of ways to simplify the process of programming and wiring the machine. ...
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