The birth of a giant
Inside the beast
The brilliant minds
The legacy of ENIAC
007skaty In 1942, physicist John Mauchly proposed an electronic calculator, partnering with engineer J. Presper Eckert Jr. to design ENIAC's reliable circuits.
Which two visionaries are credited as the primary designers of the ENIAC computer?
007skaty Female mathematicians physically wired the massive machine to solve complex scientific equations.
What resources did the six female programmers use to learn how to program the ENIAC?
ENIAC's hidden programmers: The six women who programmed ENIAC were originally called 'computers' because that was a job title, not a machine.
007skaty Connect Johnny's electrical sparks through the circuits to learn how the Aniac computer processed data.
What computer design concept, inspired by his work on ENIAC, did John von Neumann popularize?
A person who writes computer programs. In 1945, six female mathematicians became the first programmers of the electronic Aniac machine.
007skaty Overlooked ENIAC Programmers
We wired the machine, we wired the machine, but they left our names behind.
How were the female ENIAC programmers often misidentified in early historical photographs?
Which historian helped rediscover and document the stories of the female ENIAC programmers in the 1990s?