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

1996; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/85.476561

1934-1547

David Alan Grier,

Cybernetics and Technology in Society

This paper examines the verb "to program" in the context of the ENIAC development to see what light it can shed on the development of the concept, both for the ENIAC and for subsequent stored program computers.