Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

Part of what makes the ENIAC so different is that it had a different design principle than a modern computer. It was less a general purpose stored-program computer and more of a collection of ...

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 for years to aid the efforts of World ...

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 ...

Probably because it's what spawned those movies anyway. ENIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age, fueled the public's imagination about how science and computers ...

Well, no. Many of us who went to school and have degrees in various computer related fields instantly think of ENIAC as the first “computer”, but we’re all wrong. We know some of you are ...

Google's head of quantum thinks we could get real-world applications of quantum computing in just five years, while Nvidia claims it's more like 20.

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It was called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC. Show more In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in Philadelphia, in the USA. It was called ...

He is also a scholar of computer history, focusing specifically on early computing technology, including the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) — the first computer. Stuart has ...