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From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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ENIAC’s 1948 Stored-Program Conversion: Reprogramming the First Electronic General-Purpose Computer

ENIAC’s 1948 conversion replaced much of its plugboard-style setup with coded instructions selected from function-table switches, dramatically changing how the machine was programmed while exposing competing meanings of “stored program.”

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The ENIAC Six: Programming Before Programming Languages

The six women who programmed ENIAC translated mathematical procedures into switch settings, cable connections and machine operations before programming languages or standard software tools existed.

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