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= ENIAC Day = | = ENIAC Day = | ||
'February 15th' is a day set aside to honor the ENIAC -- "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer" -- the first general-purpose electronic computer. | ''February 15th'' is a day set aside to honor the ENIAC -- "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer" -- the first general-purpose electronic computer. | ||
Notable was the fact that the programmers of this computer were entirely women, having been sourced from the ranks of female mathematicians drafted during World War II to calculate ballistic tables for the Army. ''(My grandmother was one of these programmers: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli Kathleen McNulty] --[[User:Nthmost|Nthmost]] ([[User talk:Nthmost|talk]]) 01:33, 5 February 2015 (UTC))'' | Notable about the ENIAC was the fact that the programmers of this computer were entirely women, having been sourced from the ranks of female mathematicians drafted during World War II to calculate ballistic tables for the Army. ''(My grandmother was one of these programmers: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli Kathleen McNulty] --[[User:Nthmost|Nthmost]] ([[User talk:Nthmost|talk]]) 01:33, 5 February 2015 (UTC))'' | ||
For more information on the history of computing and the ENIAC in particular, see [http://the-eniac.com/] | For more information on the history of computing and the ENIAC in particular, see [http://the-eniac.com/ the-eniac.com] | ||
== February 15th == | == February 15th == | ||
Latest revision as of 18:34, 4 February 2015
ENIAC Day[edit]
February 15th is a day set aside to honor the ENIAC -- "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer" -- the first general-purpose electronic computer.
Notable about the ENIAC was the fact that the programmers of this computer were entirely women, having been sourced from the ranks of female mathematicians drafted during World War II to calculate ballistic tables for the Army. (My grandmother was one of these programmers: Kathleen McNulty --Nthmost (talk) 01:33, 5 February 2015 (UTC))
For more information on the history of computing and the ENIAC in particular, see the-eniac.com
February 15th[edit]
Starting 6pm, films will be shown in the Hackatorium on the projector screen.
Films for 2015
- The Skateboard and the Computer
- something about Grace Hopper
- ...?
Come learn about the birth of the information age, the early important role of women in computing, the involvement of the military in the creation of computing, and the quirky engineers and inventors behind it all.
From ENIAC Day to celebrate dedication of Penn’s historic computer:
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, was built to calculate ballistic trajectories for the Army during World War II, a time- and labor-intensive process that had previously been performed by teams of mathematicians working with mechanical calculators.
Under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering (now the School of Engineering and Applied Science), construction of the 27-ton, 680-square-foot computer began in July 1943 and was announced to the public on Feb. 14, 1946.