When did John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert meet?

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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert met in 1942, when the Army asked University of Pennsylvania to have a class of scientists to help the war effort. Eckert was the teacher in this class and Mauchly was a student. They both attended the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

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