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<br> | In 1946 the Moore School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was at the center of developments in high-speed electronic computing. On February 14 of that year it had publicly unveiled the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, developed in secret beginning in 1943 for the Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory. Prior even to the ENIAC's completion, work had begun on a second-generation electronic digital computer, the EDVAC, which incorporated the stored program model. Work at the Moore School attracted such luminaries as John von Neumann, who served as a consultant to the EDVAC project, and Stan Frankel and Nicholas Metropolis of the Manhattan Project, who arrived to run one of the first major programs written for the ENIAC, a mathematical simulation for the hydrogen bomb project.<br> | ||
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC ENIAC Page in Wikipedia] | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC ENIAC Page in Wikipedia] | ||
A photo of the parts of the ENIAC currently on display at the University of Pennsylvania | |||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ENIAC_Penn1.jpg | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ENIAC_Penn1.jpg | ||
[[Category:Is-Museum]] | [[Category:Is-Museum]] | ||
Revision as of 13:44, 19 March 2011
In 1946 the Moore School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was at the center of developments in high-speed electronic computing. On February 14 of that year it had publicly unveiled the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, developed in secret beginning in 1943 for the Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory. Prior even to the ENIAC's completion, work had begun on a second-generation electronic digital computer, the EDVAC, which incorporated the stored program model. Work at the Moore School attracted such luminaries as John von Neumann, who served as a consultant to the EDVAC project, and Stan Frankel and Nicholas Metropolis of the Manhattan Project, who arrived to run one of the first major programs written for the ENIAC, a mathematical simulation for the hydrogen bomb project.
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A photo of the parts of the ENIAC currently on display at the University of Pennsylvania