Burks was accepted and began working on the Eniac, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. The Eniac's job was to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells. It was finally finished and demonstrated in February 1946, too late for use in World War II, but it is credited with being the first electronic digital computer. It was on the Eniac project that Burks met and began working with von Neumann, the eminent mathematician and computing theorist. von Neumann, Burks and Herman H. Goldstine, who later became a researcher at IBM, worked mostly on the logic and design issues. But two other scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, were the engineering wizards who built the Eniac.
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