A look back at the room-size government computer that began the digital era Steven Levy Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin ...

The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was the largest and most powerful computer built during World War II. The United States ...

News.com has a package commemorating the 60th anniversary of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first electronic computer that could handle large scale calculations. The 28-ton ...

There are two epochs in computer history: before ENIAC and after ENIAC. While there are controversies about who invented what, there’s universal agreement that the Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...

Sixty-eight years ago this month, construction began quietly on ENIAC, the first electronic computer that was built for the U.S. Army to speed up the calculation of ordnance trajectories for soldiers ...

In 1946 a team of six young women mathematicians made computer science history by programming the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It’s called ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator ...

From a technological perspective, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was an unqualified success. But the story behind ENIAC--its development and demise--is a classic illustration of how ...

On 15 February 1946, Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, US, unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC). The machine, which was developed between 1943 ...

Excerpted from the book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman. Copyright © 2022 by ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...