ORIGINAL COMPUTERS: "Computer" Alice Burks and her husband, ENIAC design team member Arthur Burks, stand behind an accumulator unit of the machine.
As part of the commemoration, Jan Van der Spiegel, a professor of electrical engineering at Penn, and a group of his students are attempting to "rebuild the whole computer on a single chip. We will be using modern-day technology to make a chip with the internal architecture and logical structure that mimics the capabilities of the original machine," he explains.
Another group, headed by electrical engineering professor Fred Ketterer, is working on reconstructing a part of ENIAC "to show how the original machine functioned," adds Van der Spiegel, who is also involved in that project. "Although the unit will be much smaller, the unit will have circuitry of the original and operate in the same way."
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