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 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 ...

In complex systems, when parts are woven together through use, new structures arise that no one specified in advance. Like ENIAC, the machines we are building now—the large models, the autonomous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Moore School stood ready as people began to arrive by train and trolley. John and Pres, as well as the engineers and deans and professors ...

Students at PS Academy in Arizona have constructed a life-sized replica of the historic ENIAC computer using cardboard and wood. Led by technology instructor Tom Burick, the six-month project ...