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- At the Moore School of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Pennsylvania,
they were very very strong in computation.
'Cause there were engineers back then
who were moving more toward
not just how you do things
based on what people did before,
but, break new frontier.
And as they did that,
the mathematical complications
became difficult to solve.
So they needed a machine.
So they decided, electrons are faster,
we'll move 'em through these tubes,
and we'll click 'em on and off.
And we'll make a machine that
would solve these equations.
They created the worlds first all-electronic
general-purpose digital computer.
When the war started they were picked especially
to do computations for the army
for long guns and firing tables.
- ENIAC was revolutionary in being the first
large-scale general-purpose, electronic
digital computer ever built.
And led to the evolution towards modern
computer technology by developing
the steward program architecture that is
the fundamental architecture
for all computers today.
- They solved these equations that they thought
would take two years, in two hours.
(laughs) they did it.
So the world changed.
- You know, without ENIAC
and the University of Pennsylvania
and the city of Philadelphia, we wouldn't have Google.
We wouldn't have Microsoft.
We wouldn't have the things
that are driving today's economy
and the rapid innovation that keeps happening
in computer devices.
- People just create things,
even if they're not being prompted to.
It's what human beings are about.
You need new knowledge
to start something new in the marketplace.
So people create knowledge.
Knowledge is inherently human.