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 ...

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 ...

From a technological perspective, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was an unqualified success. But the story behind ENIAC–its development and demise–is a classic illustration of how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A small panel of what used to be a massive 30-ton machine rests off in that corner in the Moore Building while engineering students sit a few feet away, browsing Facebook, chatting and eating lunch.

In 1945, the ENIAC computer filled a space the size of a tennis court and relied on 18,000 vacuum tubes to function. Today, the same computational power fits inside devices measured in nanometers, ...