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Insurance Company  The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I)
was the first commercial computer produced in the United
States.[1] It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and
John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was
started by their company, Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation,
and was completed after the company had been acquired by
Remington Rand (which later became part of Sperry, now Unisys).
In the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared,
the machine was simply known as "the UNIVAC".[2]  The first
UNIVAC was accepted by the United States Census Bureau on March
31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year.[3][4] The
fifth machine (built for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) was
used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential
election. With a sample of just 1% of the voting population it
famously predicted an Eisenhower landslide