http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/05/secrets-of-eniac/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 19 May 2010 01:52:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/05/secrets-of-eniac/comment-page-1/#comment-76132 nick Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:51:10 +0000 /?p=403#comment-76132 As part of Penn's <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/departmental/events/women_computing.shtml" rel="nofollow">Women in Computing Series,</a> I went to a special event today with Jean Bartik and Kay Mauchly Antonelli, who programmed the ENIAC about 60 years ago, and Kathryn Kleiman, who made a short documentary about the ENIAC programmers, <i>The Computers: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women who Programmed the ENIAC.</i> There was a great discussion, with Bartik and Mauchly Antonelli recounting how they figured out their programming task (not allowed to actually see the ENIAC at first, they had to do so using block diagrams) and describing the parallel processing ability, and the difficulties with it, that were mentioned in that previously linked article. As part of Penn’s Women in Computing Series, I went to a special event today with Jean Bartik and Kay Mauchly Antonelli, who programmed the ENIAC about 60 years ago, and Kathryn Kleiman, who made a short documentary about the ENIAC programmers, The Computers: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women who Programmed the ENIAC. There was a great discussion, with Bartik and Mauchly Antonelli recounting how they figured out their programming task (not allowed to actually see the ENIAC at first, they had to do so using block diagrams) and describing the parallel processing ability, and the difficulties with it, that were mentioned in that previously linked article.

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/05/secrets-of-eniac/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 nick Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:18:11 +0000 /?p=403#comment-1666 Sometimes the secrets are hidden in plain view: <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v12/4/mar.html">The March 1996 issue of <i>Penn Printout,</i></a> which is <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/pdf/v12/mar.pdf">online in PDF</a> and <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v12/4/mar.html">in HTML,</a> contains a host of articles, e.g., <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v12/4/mauchly.html">Michael Ryan on the Maulchy exhibit</a> that I mentioned and <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v12/4/gene.html">Mitch Marcus and Atsushi Akera on ENIAC's (untapped) ability to do parallel processing.</a> Sometimes the secrets are hidden in plain view: The March 1996 issue of Penn Printout, which is online in PDF and in HTML, contains a host of articles, e.g., Michael Ryan on the Maulchy exhibit that I mentioned and Mitch Marcus and Atsushi Akera on ENIAC’s (untapped) ability to do parallel processing.

]]> http://grandtextauto.org/2004/08/05/secrets-of-eniac/comment-page-1/#comment-1572 Hideous Pursuit Sat, 07 Aug 2004 02:59:16 +0000 /?p=403#comment-1572 <trackback /><strong>Wearable ENIAC Wiki</strong> Wearable hotspot detector Secrets of ENIAC exhibit [via] SIGGRAPH 2004 Wiki is growing rapidly [via] CyberFashion III at SIGGRAPH Wednesday. This changes everything Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence [via] torrentocracy [via]... Wearable ENIAC Wiki
Wearable hotspot detector Secrets of ENIAC exhibit [via] SIGGRAPH 2004 Wiki is growing rapidly [via] CyberFashion III at SIGGRAPH Wednesday. This changes everything Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence [via] torrentocracy [via]…

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