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 ...

On February 14, 1946, America’s love affair with the computer began. That is when John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...

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Go to updated and illustrated post. __1952: __Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Engineers J. Presper Eckert and John ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...