Communications of the ACM

Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of ENIAC

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), a machine that profoundly reshaped computing, marked its 80 th ...

Why engineers in Philadelphia created ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer

Meet ENIAC, which stands for electronic numerical integrator and computer. "We like to refer to it as the start of the age of computing," Paul Shaffer, an ENIAC historian, said. For context, this ...