Additional Materials

Video

ENIAC: The public's first glimpse of a computer - C|NET video
ABC Computer Operation - Ames Lab
Why are there so many programming languages? - Video interview with Eric Gunnerson (Microsoft)

Articles

ENIAC: A Computer is Born - C|NET News Article
Algorithms Add Up To Big Business - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/1/07
Why Software Fails by Robert N. Charette (Article in IEEE Spectrum, September 2005).
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, by Alan Turing
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing
Quantum Computing with Molecules by Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac L. Chuang (Article in Scientific American, June 1998)
Computing with DNA by Leonard M. Adleman