ENIAC

ENIAC (/ˈini.æk/ or /ˈɛni.æk/; Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and could solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming.

Although ENIAC was designed and primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, its first programs included a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.

When ENIAC was announced in 1946, it was heralded as a "Giant Brain" by the press. It had a speed on the order of one thousand (103) times faster than that of electro-mechanical machines; this computational power, coupled with general-purpose programmability, excited scientists and industrialists alike.

Development and design

ENIAC's design and construction was financed by the United States Army, Ordnance Corps, Research and Development Command, led by Major General Gladeon M. Barnes. The construction contract was signed on June 5, 1943; work on the computer began in secret at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering the following month, under the code name "Project PX", with John Grist Brainerd as principal investigator.

Eniac (record producer)

Eniac (born Robert Borrmann) is a German composer and record producer, specializing in house music and techno. He is the writer and co-producer of several progressive house and progressive trance tracks, working collaboratively with other artists. He also produced gabber and psychedelic pop.

His first songs consisted of "My Way" and "Planet Love", From this his first EP was called "My Way to Planet Love". He then had his breakthrough with the hit "In Your Face" , with sounds resembling that of "The Prodigy".

Eniac created Tomcraft's hit "Loneliness" and "Prosac", and has worked with Niels Van Gogh on the tracks "Pulverturm" and "Doppelgänger". He was a member of Novy vs. Eniac; a short-lived collaboration with Tom Novy producing minor hits "Superstar", "Someday > Somehow", "Pumpin ..." and "Smoke This".

In July 2015 he released the single "People are People" on Motor Digital, Berlin.

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ENIAC (disambiguation)

ENIAC or Eniac may refer to:

  • ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer
  • Eniac (record producer), a German musical artist
  • European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council, a European Technology Platform for nanoelectronics
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