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 ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' spoke on second night of the 2020 Republican National Convention last month, in a prerecorded message praising President Donald Trump for his administration's aid to Iowa ...

This year, Penn is celebrating the 66th anniversary of the world’s first computer. Created in 1946, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, better known as ENIAC, was the first-ever ...

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 ...

Many people know Philadelphia is home to the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer. The ENIAC — for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was developed at the University of ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. ENIAC was built by a team of ...

A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into friendly desktop tools. This was not a dream ...

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 ...

Seventy five years ago, the world was introduced to ENIAC, the first ever electronic, programmable, general purpose, digital computer, in a demonstration that not only ushered in the first glimmers of ...

During WWII, a top-secret project to build the first programmable digital computer was underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army was looking for a faster way to run complicated ...

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 ...