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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was introduced to the world in 1946 on Valentine’s Day.

The huge gadget was known as the “electronic numerical integrator and computer.” Its inventors—Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert—called it “eniac.” For their blue-ribbon ...

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 ...

Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was a mere three cubic feet, a mind-boggling size when compared with the 1000 square feet ENIAC hogged. It contained almost 800 ...

Computers have become sleeker and faster since the early days of ENIAC. Track the history of computing power from 1946 to the present.