A look back at the room-size government computer that began the digital era Steven Levy Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin ...

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 ...

How an Arizona teacher's dyscalculia shaped a massive cardboard recreation of the ENIAC computer ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

An Arizona teacher and his students built a full-scale cardboard replica of the historic ENIAC computer, using 22,000 parts and six months of work. The project, led by technology instructor Tom Burick ...