Mauchlys

Mauchly is a surname of German origin. It is most notably associated with John Mauchly (1907–1980), an American physicist and computer pioneer who co-invented ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers.

With J. Presper Eckert, Mauchly designed ENIAC at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, for the U.S. Army during World War II. The project culminated in a 1945 completion and a 1946 public demonstration, and it influenced subsequent computer hardware and software design. In 1947 the pair founded the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation to commercialize computing devices; the company was later acquired by Remington Rand in 1950, contributing to the development of the UNIVAC line. The surname Mauchly remains relatively uncommon and is primarily recognized from John Mauchly's contributions to computing history.