Happy Birthday, ENIAC! This year marks 60 years since ENIAC launched the world into the Computing Age. Today, it is difficult to imagine how we could manage without the myriad electronic devices that we utilize each day. From our cell phones, PDAs, and cameras to our automobiles, airplanes, medical equipment and devices, electronics is the engine driving us forward. And it was here at the University of Pennsylvania that it all began.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science is proud to have four of the original 40 panels of the ENIAC. The artifacts on display represent approximately 1/10th of its original size. It was announced on February 14th, 1946.

To celebrate ENIACs birthday, we have provided an opportunity for you to use the ENIAC simulator online by visiting http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~zoppke/D, or here to read the abstract on the workings of the ENIAC simulator.

You can also read a recently released Interview with Presper Eckert from Computer World.