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[Printout | About | Archives | Search ] March 1996 - Volume 12:4 ON THE COVER: Public announcement of ENIAC, 1946. From left: J. Presper Eckert, Chief Engineer; Prof. J. G. Brainerd, project supervisor; Sam Feltman, Chief Engineer for Ballistics, Ordnance Dept.; Captain H. H. Goldstine, Liaison Officer; Dr. J. W. Mauchly, Consulting Engineer; Dean Harold Pender, Moore School of Electrical Engineering; General G. M. Barnes, Chief, Ordnance R&D Service; Colonel Paul N. Gillon, Chief, Research Branch, ORDS. (Photo: John Mauchly Papers, Dept. of Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library) Below: Detail of the circuit design for the accumulator sections of the ENIAC II chip. F E A T U R E S A golden anniversary Gregory C. Farrington and Peter C. Patton toast ENIAC Abacus to ENIAC Highlights in the history of computing ENIAC-on-a-chip Jan van der Spiegel cuts 30 tons down to size Crackpot notions Dilys Winegrad tells the story of ENIAC John W. Mauchly: the man and the machine Michael T. Ryan on Penn Library's exhibition ENIAC golden anniversary events Highlights for February and March A birthday card to ENIAC A gallery of greetings Cybersociety 2046 Jill Maser asks students about computing's next 50 years ENIAC's recessive gene Mitch Marcus and Atsushi Akera on ENIAC's progeny Jack Norman I. Badler animates a model virtual employee Media power John MacDermott finds new technology in education D E P A R T M E N T S Announcements Q&A Random bits ISC: Keeping in Touch