University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science
Penn Engineering is the birthplace of the modern computer. It was here that the ENIAC, the world’s first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, was developed in 1946. Since this auspicious beginning more than five decades ago, the field of computer science at Penn has been marked by exciting innovations.
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- Website: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/
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- Phone: 215-898-8560 (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Email: cis-info@cis.upenn.edu (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
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Penn Engineering is the birthplace of the modern computer. It was here that the ENIAC, the world’s first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, was developed in 1946. Since this auspicious beginning more than five decades ago, the field of computer science at Penn has been marked by exciting innovations.
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