   (mellow electronic music)
- At the Moore School of
Electrical Engineering
   at the University
   of Pennsylvania,
 they were very very
 strong in computation.
  'Cause there were
  engineers back then
  who were moving more toward
   not just how you do things
based on what people did before,
but, break new frontier.
 And as they did that,
 the mathematical complications
   became difficult to solve.
   So they needed a machine.
 So they decided,
 electrons are faster,
  we'll move 'em
  through these tubes,
and we'll click 'em on and off.
 And we'll make a machine that
  would solve these equations.
They created the worlds
first all-electronic
   general-purpose
   digital computer.
   When the war started they
   were picked especially
to do computations for the army
for long guns and firing tables.
   - ENIAC was revolutionary
   in being the first
  large-scale
  general-purpose, electronic
  digital computer ever built.
And led to the
evolution towards modern
  computer technology
  by developing
  the steward program
  architecture that is
  the fundamental architecture
for all computers today.
  - They solved these
  equations that they thought
  would take two
  years, in two hours.
 (laughs) they did it.
 So the world changed.
   - You know, without ENIAC
   and the University
   of Pennsylvania
 and the city of Philadelphia,
 we wouldn't have Google.
  We wouldn't have Microsoft.
  We wouldn't have the things
that are driving today's economy
and the rapid innovation
that keeps happening
  in computer devices.
  - People just create things,
  even if they're not
  being prompted to.
   It's what human
   beings are about.
 You need new knowledge
 to start something new
 in the marketplace.
  So people create knowledge.
 Knowledge is inherently human.
