 He died of leukemia in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.In 2002, he was inducted, posthumously, into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.Eckert believed that the widely adopted term "von Neumann architecture" should properly be known as the "Eckert architecture", since the stored-program concept central to the von Neumann architecture had already been developed at the Moore School by the time von Neumann arrived on the scene in 1944–1945.