Confusingly, there were two unrelated Eckerts in early computing. Wallace Eckert was an astronomer at Columbia who figured out crazy ways to use punch card acco

Confusingly, there were two unrelated Eckerts in early computing. Wallace Eckert was an astronomer at Columbia who figured out crazy ways to use punch card accounting machines to do scientific computation, and wrote the book "Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation". Presper Eckert, who was unrelated to Wallace Eckert, is the better-known co-designer of the groundbreaking ENIAC computer (along with Mauchly). They then designed the UNIVAC I, basically the first successful commercial computer.