The virtual life of ENIAC: Simulating the operation of the first electronic computer

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 18-25

  Zoppke, Till ^a,b   Rojas, Raúl ^a,c,d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Freie Universitaät Berlin ^*  (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR; INTERACTIVE SIMULATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33646883245     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2006.40     Document Type: Article

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