From ENIAC to Skeduflo: The Untold Story of Mauchly's Post-ENIAC Innovations
Come for Eniac, Stay for Univac and Skeduflo
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert invented ENIAC at Penn in 1946, but their later work on UNIVAC and even Skeduflo, a computer in a suitcase, is often overlooked. Mauchly's papers reveal a relentless innovator who, after ENIAC, developed BINAC, EDVAC, and UNIVAC, and later founded Mauchly Associates to create Skeduflo for construction scheduling. This post highlights Mauchly's role at the UNIVAC Applications and Research Center, where he sought problems for computers to solve, and his prediction that computers would fit in pockets by 1980—a vision realized in today's smartphones.
Rarely have so few people altered the world as much as [ENIAC’s] inventors, yet gained so little for having done so.