The ENIAC, the verb "to program" and the emergence of digital computers

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-55

  Grier, David Alan ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC COMPUTING; ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTER; STORED PROGRAM COMPUTER;

DIGITAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 0030106023     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.476561     Document Type: Article

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