The invention of ENIAC in Philadelphia sparked countless technological innovations.

A tech twist to Philly’s 2026 heritage celebrations, eight decades after the pioneering Penn-built machine changed society forever.

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 ...

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 ...

It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the ...

On 15 February 1946, Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, US, unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC). The machine, which was developed between 1943 ...

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 ...

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 ...

30 years before Steve Jobs introduced his first computer, there was a 30-ton computer named ENIAC. In many ways ENIAC was one of the biggest computer stories of the 20th century. According to the ...