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 ...

Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings in rural Missouri in 1924 and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, always dreamed of getting out of the Midwest and having a real adventure in the world. She lived ...

Frances Bilas and Elizabeth Jennings in front of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (known as the ENIAC). ENIAC was developed at Penn's Moore School 1943-1945 ...

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 ...

The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arthur W. Burks, a member of the team that designed the Eniac computer, a frequent collaborator of John von Neumann and a pioneer in computing education, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Ann Arbor, ...

The University of Pennsylvania rolls out the first all-electronic general-purpose digital computer, called ENIAC (one shown). The Colossus electronic computers had been used by British code-breakers ...