Meet ENIAC, which stands for electronic numerical integrator and computer. "We like to refer to it as the start of the age of computing," Paul Shaffer, an ENIAC historian, said. For context, this ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), a machine that profoundly reshaped computing, marked its 80 th ...

The first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms, something hard to imagine in a day and age when we carry mobile phones in our pockets. One of those massive machines, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pieces of ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic computer, are on display at the University of Pennsylvania's ...