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 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 ...

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

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 ...

Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he’s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop ...

Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world. On 15 ...

There are many reasons why working in Philly tech is inherently cool, but one of our favorites is that the city is the birthplace of the world’s very first all-electronic, programmable computer — the ...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- One of the most important pieces of computing history can be found inside a classroom in Pennsylvania. Inside the Moore Building on the University of Pennsylvania's ...

ENIAC is considered the world's first fully electronic universal computer. It was programmed by six IT pioneers who were almost forgotten by time. The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer ...

In a day and age in which we carry sophisticated mobile phones in our pockets, it's hard to imagine that the first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms. One of those massive ...