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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Giant Brain made history in many ways Apic / Getty Images The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first ...

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

On The Spark, Asia Tabb sat down with Paul Schaeffer—longtime spokesperson for ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer—to explore how a 1940s Army weapons project gave birth to ...

There are two epochs in computer history: Before ENIAC and After ENIAC. The first practical, all-electronic computer was unveiled on Feb. 14, 1946, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of ...

The Second World War provided the impetus for the development of many technologies and computing is a prime example. Aiming a gun may seem to be a simple enough task - just point and fire - but if you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gloria Gordon Bolotsky, 87, a programmer in the 1940s for the first general-purpose electronic computer, the ENIAC, died June 30 of cancer at her daughter's home in Gaithersburg. She was a Rockville ...

The University of Pennsylvania is home to a portion of computing history. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- One of the most important pieces ...