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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ENIAC is such a great piece of Philly tech lore that we’re re-upping these 10 things you need to know about the first supercomputer from its 65th birthday in 2011: A group of female “computers” ...

ENIAC filled an entire room. With its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches, it looked like something we'd associate with a 1950s science fiction movie. Probably because it's what spawned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

30 years before Steve Jobs introduced his first computer, there was a 30-ton computer named ENIAC. In many ways ENIAC was one of the biggest computer stories of the 20th century. According to the ...