The term "artificial intelligence" was formally adopted at the 1956 Dartmouth Conference. Over the past seven decades, AI has ...

The trampoline was invented by gymnast George Nissen of Cedar Rapids. Sixteen-year-old Nissen was inspired to create the trampoline after watching aerialists fall into safety nets and bounce up again ...

Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania into the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC. This was the first electronic computer used for general purposes. The Army wanted ...

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Milwaukee School of Engineering has announced a $125 million fundraising campaign, with $80 million already raised, to fund a new academic building and expand the university's artificial ...

The first computer that would use vacuum tubes, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, also known as ENIAC, was built in 1946. In fact, the ENIAC used more than 17 000 vacuum tubes for its ...

In 1946, it was home to ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer, a project that shaped the future of computing. Its Fisher Fine Arts Library, designed by Frank Furness ...