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Fifty years ago this month, the U.S. Army and the University of Pennsylvania teamed up to produce an all-electronic machine that heralded the beginning of the Information Age. In this hour of Science Friday, we'll look back on the half-century since ENIAC was invented and reflect on how computers have revolutionized our lives.
Guests: Mitchell Marcus Chair, Department of Computer & Information Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Sherry Turkle Author, "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet" Professor of the Sociology of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Joel Shurkin Author, "Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors" San Francisco, CA
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