- 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.