ENIAC, 80 years later
A celebration held at the Helicopter Museum, in the Philadelphia suburbs. Free to attend on-line. ________________________________ I’m taking the liberty of reposting an email from Jim Scherrer, head of the computer museum in Philadelphia. You can attend for free on-line. Don’t rag me on the question of “First”: I intend to address that topic in the brief talk I plan to give. Gearing up for 80th Anniversary Celebration of ENIAC Hello Friends of Compuseum- American Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PA February 15th, 2026 (Sunday) Starting at museum open at 1PM (EST). Video Presentation runs two hours from 2PM-4PM (EST) in the museum Auditorium, Afterwards is 1 hour duration meet and greet. Museum closes at 5PM (EST). This is also a virtual/online/hybrid event on the Zoom Platform. Invitations via Helicopter Museum and Compuseum $20 per person for Museum Entry. Zoom attendees no charge, Registration Required. Sign Up Here: https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration Presentation on Zoom and in Auditorium <https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mNV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed47bba5-73fc-4ca2-83a5-b53014278150_503x335.png>[https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mNV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed47bba5-73fc-4ca2-83a5-b53014278150_503x335.png]<https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mNV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed47bba5-73fc-4ca2-83a5-b53014278150_503x335.png> Kickoff By: Paul Kahan (CEO- Helicopter Museum) 2 minutes Jim Scherrer (CEO- Compuseum) 2 minutes Kathy Kleiman - “Deep Dive Into Proving Ground People” Author- Proving Grounds; Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/52qkpvl (Confirmed - In person or Virtual) Brian Stuart - “The ENIAC in Context” A deep technical dive into how the master programmer makes the ENIAC satisfy the criteria necessary for universality in the Turing sense and to clarify the relationship between Turing’s work and that of Mauchly and Eckert. (Confirmed - In Person) Paul Ceruzzi - “Perspective on ENIAC, 80 years On” Tom Burick - “How Today’s High School Students built a full sized replica of ENIAC, from scratch!” IT Instructor, PS Academy, Arizona. (Confirmed, Virtual) Bill Mauchly - “Giant Brain Takes Over the World” the story we can never let go of. Bill is from First Family of Computing - Son of John Mauchly and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Chris Eckert - “Recollections of My Dad” First Family of Computing - Son of J. Presper Eckert (Confirmed, Virtual) Gini Mauchly - “What Kay McNulty would Tell you about How to Be Successful.” First Family of Computing - Daughter of John Mauchly and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person) Naomi Most - “Did my IT career result from my DNA” Granddaughter of Kay McNulty (Confirmed, Virtual) Dr. Tim Bartik - “Recollections of My Mother”. Son of Jean Jennings Bartik, 1st ENIAC Programmer (Confirmed, Virtual) Jeffrey Yost - “The ENIAC’s Unveiling: Shaping Metaphors and Meanings in Computing” Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Confirmed, In Person) Paul Shaffer - “How the ENIAC made Quadrotor Drones Possible; From Vacuum Tubes to Vertical Flight” ENIAC Historian at PENN- (Confirmed, In Person) Ken Chaney - “See PENN’s Supercomputer” with Associate Director of AI and Technology for PARCC at the Betty Holberton Data Center - Visitors will see the Betty Holberton supercomputer at PENN (named after Betty Holberton, ENIAC programmer) https://parcc.upenn.edu/systems/betty/ (Confirmed, On Site) Show & Tell - “Audience Participation” Q&A session where audience members can show off their ENIAC equipment or memorabilia using the screen share option. If you have ENIAC equipment or memorabilia you’d like to “show off”, please let us know in advance. Wrap Up Thank you from - Jim Scherrer (Compuseum); Paul Kahan (Helicopter Museum) 1 hour cake party at museum (4-5PM) then after-party. Jim Scherrer, President and Founder
And may I take this opportunity to make SIGCIS aware of a remarkable just-completed ENIAC-related project CHM helped out a bit on: https://www.pcmag.com/news/this-actual-size-eniac-replica-is-the-coolest-thing-youll-see-today?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=A This Actual-Size ENIAC Replica Is the Coolest Thing You’ll See Today pcmag.com Dag
On Feb 5, 2026, at 8:35 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
A celebration held at the Helicopter Museum, in the Philadelphia suburbs. Free to attend on-line. I’m taking the liberty of reposting an email from Jim Scherrer, head of the computer museum in Philadelphia. You can attend for free on-line. Don’t rag me on the question of “First”: I intend to address that topic in the brief talk I plan to give. Gearing up for 80th Anniversary Celebration of ENIAC Hello Friends of Compuseum-
American Helicopter Museum, West Chester, PA February 15th, 2026 (Sunday) Starting at museum open at 1PM (EST). Video Presentation runs two hours from 2PM-4PM (EST) in the museum Auditorium, Afterwards is 1 hour duration meet and greet. Museum closes at 5PM (EST). This is also a virtual/online/hybrid event on the Zoom Platform. Invitations via Helicopter Museum and Compuseum $20 per person for Museum Entry. Zoom attendees no charge, Registration Required. Sign Up Here: https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.helicoptermuseum.org%2Fevent-details%2Feniac-day-celebration&data=05%7C02%7Cdspicer%40computerhistory.org%7C2e539a40e6c9452b7feb08de64d50ea0%7Cb6a9c12a29ee4c5f8f93f0d7a8e2db2f%7C0%7C0%7C639059063638717723%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XaaiEb1zgwVnylB%2BNGRtVj7aTUXyU3TNV%2FHp5UcP6Xg%3D&reserved=0>
Presentation on Zoom and in Auditorium <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_!2mNV!%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fed47bba5-73fc-4ca2-83a5-b53014278150_503x335.png&data=05%7C02%7Cdspicer%40computerhistory.org%7C2e539a40e6c9452b7feb08de64d50ea0%7Cb6a9c12a29ee4c5f8f93f0d7a8e2db2f%7C0%7C0%7C639059063638757032%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=R7NDNLNxFHzFpCrI7oTGNlv1QBi4nc5V8I7EVdcabF4%3D&reserved=0> <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_!2mNV!%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Fed47bba5-73fc-4ca2-83a5-b53014278150_503x335.png&data=05%7C02%7Cdspicer%40computerhistory.org%7C2e539a40e6c9452b7feb08de64d50ea0%7Cb6a9c12a29ee4c5f8f93f0d7a8e2db2f%7C0%7C0%7C639059063638786624%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=J9ELd5nDrKCYMHiJdqPQANRctH6LmFwJSCnDSh0zAXQ%3D&reserved=0>
Kickoff By: Paul Kahan (CEO- Helicopter Museum) 2 minutes Jim Scherrer (CEO- Compuseum) 2 minutes
Kathy Kleiman - “Deep Dive Into Proving Ground People” Author- Proving Grounds; Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/52qkpvl <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.co%2Fd%2F52qkpvl&data=05%7C02%7Cdspicer%40computerhistory.org%7C2e539a40e6c9452b7feb08de64d50ea0%7Cb6a9c12a29ee4c5f8f93f0d7a8e2db2f%7C0%7C0%7C639059063638815609%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=eCR6hy%2FvyOcaeGeEohg8hiLZXgISPUlVKQiYZQ7qv4E%3D&reserved=0> (Confirmed - In person or Virtual)
Brian Stuart - “The ENIAC in Context” A deep technical dive into how the master programmer makes the ENIAC satisfy the criteria necessary for universality in the Turing sense and to clarify the relationship between Turing’s work and that of Mauchly and Eckert. (Confirmed - In Person)
Paul Ceruzzi - “Perspective on ENIAC, 80 years On”
Tom Burick - “How Today’s High School Students built a full sized replica of ENIAC, from scratch!” IT Instructor, PS Academy, Arizona. (Confirmed, Virtual)
Bill Mauchly - “Giant Brain Takes Over the World” the story we can never let go of. Bill is from First Family of Computing - Son of John Mauchly and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person)
Chris Eckert - “Recollections of My Dad” First Family of Computing - Son of J. Presper Eckert (Confirmed, Virtual)
Gini Mauchly - “What Kay McNulty would Tell you about How to Be Successful.” First Family of Computing - Daughter of John Mauchly and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person)
Naomi Most - “Did my IT career result from my DNA” Granddaughter of Kay McNulty (Confirmed, Virtual)
Dr. Tim Bartik - “Recollections of My Mother”. Son of Jean Jennings Bartik, 1st ENIAC Programmer (Confirmed, Virtual)
Jeffrey Yost - “The ENIAC’s Unveiling: Shaping Metaphors and Meanings in Computing” Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Confirmed, In Person)
Paul Shaffer - “How the ENIAC made Quadrotor Drones Possible; From Vacuum Tubes to Vertical Flight” ENIAC Historian at PENN- (Confirmed, In Person)
Ken Chaney - “See PENN’s Supercomputer” with Associate Director of AI and Technology for PARCC at the Betty Holberton Data Center - Visitors will see the Betty Holberton supercomputer at PENN (named after Betty Holberton, ENIAC programmer)https://parcc.upenn.edu/systems/betty/ <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fparcc.upenn.edu%2Fsystems%2Fbetty%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cdspicer%40computerhistory.org%7C2e539a40e6c9452b7feb08de64d50ea0%7Cb6a9c12a29ee4c5f8f93f0d7a8e2db2f%7C0%7C0%7C639059063638839848%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RybLJWixAbiLiLXsNPHo76rN84vTC%2BXdcO1zcLLX9ZA%3D&reserved=0> (Confirmed, On Site)
Show & Tell - “Audience Participation” Q&A session where audience members can show off their ENIAC equipment or memorabilia using the screen share option. If you have ENIAC equipment or memorabilia you’d like to “show off”, please let us know in advance.
Wrap Up Thank you from - Jim Scherrer (Compuseum); Paul Kahan (Helicopter Museum) 1 hour cake party at museum (4-5PM) then after-party.
Jim Scherrer, President and Founder
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