ENIAC in Action, Making and Remaking the Modern Computer, By Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley and Crispin Rope (The MIT Press, février 2016)
Within this broad sweep, the authors emphasize the crucial but previously neglected years of 1947 to 1948, when ENIAC was reconfigured to run what the authors claim was the first modern computer program to be executed: a simulation of atomic fission for Los Alamos researchers. The authors view ENIAC from diverse perspectives—as a machine of war, as the “first computer,” as a material artifact constantly remade by its users, and as a subject of (contradictory) historical narratives. They integrate the history of the machine and its applications, describing the mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who proposed and designed ENIAC as well as the men—and particularly the women who—built, programmed, and operated it.
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Valérie Schafer (5 février 2016). ENIAC in action. Web90 - Patrimoine, Mémoires et Histoire du Web dans les années 1990. Consulté le 24 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/v9z7