ENIAC’s Architects Wove Stories Through Computing

This year marks the 80th anniversary of ENIAC, the first general-purpose digital computer. The computer was built during World War II to speed up ballistics calculations, but its contributions to computing extend well beyond military applications. Two of ENIAC’s key architects—John W. Mauchly, its co-inventor, and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty, one of the six original programmers—married a few years after its completion and raised seven children together. Mauchly and McNulty’s grandchild Naomi Most delivered a talk as part of a celebration in honor of ENIAC’s anniversary on 15 February, which was held online and in-person at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pa. The foll..

Computing

Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUEEnjoy today’s videos! Getting Digit to dance takes more than putting on some fancy shoes—our AI Team can teach Digit new whole-body control capabilities overnight. Using raw motion data from mocap, animation, and teleop methods, Digit gets new skills through sim-to-real reinforcement training.[ Agility ]We’ve c..

Robotics

웨이브, 이양기 신임 대표이사 선임

온라인동영상서비스(OTT) 웨이브(Wavve)의 운영사 콘텐츠웨이브는 지난 1일 이사회를 열고 이양기 CJ ENM OTT경쟁력강화TF장을 신임 대표이사로 선임했다고 2일 밝혔다. 이양기 신임 대표는 CJ ENM 사업관리담당을 거쳐 티빙(TVING) 최고재무책임자(CFO

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