How to pronounce “eniac” in English

The ENIAC-- this is why Jon von Neumann wanted to build a new computer.

From ENIAC to the present, computations per kilowatt hour doubled, more or less, every 1.6 years.

The ENIAC which was oddly enough, it was what we would now call a multiple core processor where there were 20 parallel processors working together and then they rewired it to turn

the ENIACs and the- Jon Koomey: So that's a good question, actually, for this particular set of trends I did not include cooling cause I wanted to get at the characteristics of the IT equipment itself.

And we have the ENIAC girls, which created the first electronic computer.

His role in the ENIAC was as the designer of the interface units between the ENIAC and the punch card's card and punch.

was technology and eniac which meant many of you may have heard of in 1944 was was commonly thought of as the first

So we call them "the ENIAC girls."

We are here to talk about the ENIAC.

So late in the life of the ENIAC, people start dragging their desks in there during the summer and using it as office space.

And that's the way the ENIAC was operated.

They have a subset of the ENIAC on display there.

So when you're operating the ENIAC, that's basically the way you're doing arithmetic is you're counting pulses on a per digit basis.

It's like 14:05 ENIAC down, 14:15 still no ENIAC.

And there sheís at Aberdeen where the ENIAC was, so sheís writing codes for the ENIAC and heís, uh, at Oak Ridge laboratory, nuclear laboratory in Tennessee.

before Von Neumann went down to the ENIAC project, he had been working with Hopper for four months at the Harvard project. The ENIAC didn't even have programming tape; they just

So I put the names here of these ENIAC programmers.

The motivation was simply I wanted to understand how the ENIAC worked.

And so this was the birth of the ENIAC.

This is a small 3D printed model of the ENIAC.

But all the computers at this time had names like this-- ENIAC, EDVAC.

But then I became interested in the six women who programmed ENIAC.

And so that came out during the winter of 1945 and use the ENIAC to do some of those calculations.

So I wanted to get a feel for what that was like on the ENIAC.

It turns out that no op is actually used fairly often on the ENIAC.

So I need to talk about one more connection between Go and the ENIAC.

I mean, these six women who programmed ENIAC didn't become famous because partly, it was wartime secrecy.

What I find fascinating is that the two men who invented the ENIAC computer had, could

and then look at the Vacuum tube technology that they were using at ENIAC and then write his famous spring of 1945 paper 'First Draft of the EDVAC' to kind of build the case for

So, they all got involved in the ENIACs.

And all you have to do is go back about, read about Ada Lovelace and the ENIAC women and Katherine Johnson.

So this gives you kind of the usual rundown of what the ENIAC was all about.

So This is the famous picture of the ENIAC that was taken as part of the publicity.

Well, it wasn't really all that new because the ENIAC was a data flow machine.

And between the two of us, we started calling it the ENIAC assembly language.

The first round of equations where fed, actually, to ENIAC, because John von Neumann's computer wasn't done yet.

maybe she could work on it, and it was ENIAC, so she became the ENIAC project secretary and did such a good job that Herman Goldstein and Johnny Von Neumann brought her to the

in his footnotes thanks Aiken and Hopper, but never mentions the ENIAC project.

Next, they ran this chain on the world's first electronic computer, the ENIAC.

How did we get to a world where we had 40% of women in computer science, where we had Ada Lovelace, ENIAC women,

If you can't solve atomic bomb problems with 20 integer variables, you're not good enough to program the ENIAC.

This one is actually set up to be able to plug it into a simulator running on a Raspberry Pi and actually control the ENIAC.

In fact, I was comparing notes and discussing this work with another person who had done an ENIAC simulator.

Right, and I really try to emphasize in the book that you have to execute on vision, and that's why I focus on the engineers and the software engineers of ENIAC

So I started looking into this, this was my calculation from two computers that I had at my house that had some data on the cost of the old IBM PC XTAT and the cost of ENIAC.

Eckhart and John Mauchly who are here in the middle who built another computer down in Philadelphia at the time, called the ENIAC.

Von Neumann goes to visit the ENIAC, which is at the University of

because it defined what a modern computer was, and it left off the names of all the people who had been working on the ENIAC.