"The Women of the
ENIAC." IEEE: Annals of the History of Computing 18.3 (1996): 13-28.
The leaders of the team developing the
ENIAC were Penn's John Mauchly and J.
Many regard the first general-purpose digital computer to be the
ENIAC, an acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.
The
ENIAC (electronic numerical integrator and computer) was a monster that weighed 30 tons and contained 18,000 vacuum tubes.
The digital computer, named
ENIAC, weighing 30 tons and standing two stories high, is completed
The Governing Boards of the ARTEMIS JTI (targeted at embedded computer systems) and
ENIAC (nanoelectronics) met for the first time on 22 February in Brussels.
This gave an American engineer, Herman Hollerith, the idea to automate calculation using punch cards; these in turn were used to control
ENIAC, the first electronic computer.
Supposedly, this moniker was invented to echo the
ENIAC ('Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer') computer developed in the US in the mid-1940s by John Mauchly and J.
Another JTI in the pipeline is the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (
ENIAC), which aims to make Europe a thriving center of nanoelectronics innovation.
European Nanoelectronics Initiative (
ENIAC) (cordis.lu/ist/eniac/)
In 1949 the magazine argued that in 50 years, "Where a calculator like the
ENIAC today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1.5 tons." In actuality, 50 years later, in 1999, computers were devoid of vacuum tubes, and laptops could be purchased that weighed only a few pounds.
A chip of silicon a quarter inch square has the capacity of the original 1949
ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.
It is widely held that the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (
ENIAC) laid the foundation for the modern computing industry.
It was "the first sales brochure ever published for an electronic digital computer." Mauchly and Eckert wrote the 12-page document to explain how the UNIVAC had evolved from the earlier
ENIAC and EDVAC (illustrated above).
