Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Giant Brain made history in many ways Apic / Getty Images The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world. On 15 ...

On The Spark, Asia Tabb sat down with Paul Schaeffer—longtime spokesperson for ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer—to explore how a 1940s Army weapons project gave birth to ...

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

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 ...

The first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms, something hard to imagine in a day and age when we carry mobile phones in our pockets. One of those massive machines, the ...

In a day and age in which we carry sophisticated mobile phones in our pockets, it's hard to imagine that the first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms. One of those massive ...

A small panel of what used to be a massive 30-ton machine rests off in that corner in the Moore Building while engineering students sit a few feet away, browsing Facebook, chatting and eating lunch.

A full-scale replica of ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose computer, has been built to mark its 80th anniversary next month. Although not functional, the 500 square foot model visually simulates ...