WEST CHESTER, PA — Eighty years after the unveiling of the world’s first electronic, general-purpose programmable digital computer, a West Chester museum is marking the moment many historians credit ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the Worlds First Modern Computer" by by Kathy Kleiman. When the world's first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Excerpted from the book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman. Copyright © 2022 by ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Kathy Kleiman, the author of Proving Ground and an expert on internet governance at American University College of Law, talked about an intriguing ...