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 ...

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

ENIAC is considered the world's first fully electronic universal computer. It was programmed by six IT pioneers who were ...

80 years ago, ENIAC was presented to the world. Not the first, but the most important computer of its time.

The invention of ENIAC in Philadelphia sparked countless technological innovations.

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 ...

The first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms, something hard to imagine in a day and age when we carry mobile phones in our pockets. One of those massive machines, the ...

A look back at the room-size government computer that began the digital era Steven Levy Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin ...

With AI buying up the worldwide supply of DRAM and hard drives, a wide swath of industries from automotive to cellular to PCs will face Armageddon times.

ENIAC filled an entire room. With its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches, it looked like something we'd associate with a 1950s science fiction movie. Probably because it's what spawned ...

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 ...