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 ...

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 ...

Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he’s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- One of the most important pieces of computing history can be found inside a classroom in Pennsylvania. Inside the Moore Building on the University of Pennsylvania's ...

The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department. In a small corner of the University ...

Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings in rural Missouri in 1924 and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, always dreamed of getting out of the Midwest and having a real adventure in the world. She lived ...