Acknowledgments; List of Recurring Characters; Archival Collections Used; Introduction; Imagining ENIAC; Structuring ENIAC; Bringing ENIAC to Life; Putting ENIAC to Work; ENIAC Arrives at the Ballistic Research Lab; EDVAC and the First Draft; Converting ENIAC; ENIAC Goes to Monte Carlo; ENIAC Tries Its Luck; ENIAC Settles Down to Work; ENIAC and Its Contemporaries Meet the "Stored Program Concept"; Remembering ENIAC; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Summary
The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore
Analysis
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
