When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of ...

Q: Is it my imagination, or are tablets and smartphones now getting bigger? A: After ENIAC (the world’s first computer, which filled an entire room) powered up on July 29, 1947, computers started ...

For decades, universities struggled to commercialize federally funded inventions. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act fixed that, sparking modern tech transfer and ending the “ENIAC problem” that once drove ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pieces of ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic computer, are on display at the University of Pennsylvania's ...