Mauchly

In 2020, in honor of his data center work, Barroso received the Eckert-Mauchly Award, named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who built one of the world’s first computers in the 1940s.

Another Red Scare target was John Mauchly, a chief designer of the first American electronic digital computers and a founder of the computer company UNIVAC.

Mauchly was investigated by the FBI and denied a security clearance for several years.

The study, originally expected to take six months, took longer than expected and Eckert and Mauchly didn’t start building the machine until 1948.

Eckert and Mauchly continued their work on UNIVAC, now as a division of Remington Rand.