Season 2

Resources

Each story we tell is woven together from dozens of sources—from library books and online articles, to crumbling archival letters and family photos. You can explore some of them here.

How Many People Died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

How Many People Died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

by Alex Wellerstein (2020)

Los Alamos Bets On ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations 1947-48

Los Alamos Bets On ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations 1947-48

From rich archival sources, the authors reconstruct the evolution of a program first run on ENIAC in April 1948 by a team including John and Klara von Neumann and Nick Metropolis.

Engineering ‘The Miracle of the ENIAC’: Implement the Modern Code Paradigm

Engineering ‘The Miracle of the ENIAC’: Implement the Modern Code Paradigm

This article documents the conversion process and compares the 1948 ENIAC’s capabilities to those of the first modern computers.

Reconsidering The Stored Program Concept

Reconsidering The Stored Program Concept

The first in a three-part series appearing in IEEE Annals, this article gives a historical explanation of the endemic confusion surrounding the stored-program concept.

Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II

Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II

Film Project

The Man from the Future

The Man from the Future

by Ananyo Bhattacharya

Recoding Gender

Recoding Gender

by Janet Abbate

Inventing the Internet

Inventing the Internet

by Janet Abbate

Broad Band

Broad Band

by Claire L. Evans

The Computer Boys Take Over

The Computer Boys Take Over

by Nathan Ensmenger

Turing’s Cathedral

Turing’s Cathedral

by George Dyson

A New History of Modern Computing

A New History of Modern Computing

by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi

ENIAC In Action

ENIAC In Action

by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope

Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation

Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation

by Jule Charney, Ragnar Fjortoft, and John von Neumann. This mentions Klari in the footnote, and is an interesting application of her coding work.

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer Eniac Technical Manual

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer Eniac Technical Manual

by Adele Goldstine

John von Neumann and Klára Dán von Neumann Papers

John von Neumann and Klára Dán von Neumann Papers

From The Library of Congress

ENIAC Code

ENIAC Code

by Klára Dán von Neumann, from ENIAC in Action

Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass

Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass

by Klára Dán von Neumann