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This Week in Engineering History

This Week in Engineering History: The UNIVAC1951: First UNIVAC Delivered

The UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer made in the U.S. It was designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work started with the inventors' company, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp., but final work was completed after the company was acquired by Remington Rand in 1950. The first UNIVAC was delivered 57 years ago to the U.S. Census Bureau. The fifth machine was used by CBS to predict the 1952 presidential election. With a sample of just 1 percent of the vote, the UNIVAC predicted Eisenhower would win.

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    We've used the 60th anniversary of Design News to look at consumer and business products that changed the world. The video tape. Pong, the first video game. And the IBM PC. Here at Design News, we're digging up history - browse through 60 years of engineering innovations. Full Story
    2007-11-15 02:15:00 EST
  • Design News Celebrates a Milestone: 60 Years
    Our 60th anniversary issue commemorates the achievements and innovations of the past several decades, and looks at the future of the design engineering field. Full Story
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  • Engineering's Superstars Chart the Future
    Design News turned to several of its past Engineers of the Year for their vision of tomorrow’s technology – and the tough challenges facing the profession. Full Story
    2007-01-07 19:00:00 EST
  • Get Ready for the Autonomous Vehicle
    The next two decades could see the arrival of autonomous vehicles, especially if DARPA’s 2005 Grand Challenge is a future indicator. Full Story
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  • Nano Materials: Why Size Will Matter
    Use of extremely tiny particles dramatically changes the property profiles for plastic composites and metal alloys, generating future design engineering opportunities. Commercial applications will progress one nano step at a time. Full Story
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  • Medical World Poised for Internet Era
    Using wireless communications, cardiac patients will increasingly link to their physicians via the Internet to get a diagnosis. Full Story
    2007-01-08 08:00:00 EST
  • If You Can't Beat IT, Join IT
    Industrial Ethernet is transforming how machine components interact with one another and how machines interact with enterprise systems. Full Story
    2007-01-07 19:00:00 EST
  • Packing on Productivity
    Product development organizations need to be a lot more efficient, for which they will need faster hardware that costs less to run and more sophisticated software that facilitates collaboration and enhances simulation. Those tools are available; the challenge is how best to deploy them. Full Story
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    2007-01-07 19:00:00 EST
  • Gerson Rosenberg: Help for failing hearts
    Finding reliable, long-term heart-assist devices remains an elusive goal for engineering. Penn State’s Gerson Rosenberg, a world leader in the development of artificial organs for cardiology and the 2002 Design News Engineer of the Year, describes the hurdles engineers face in one of medicine’s high-profile fields. Full Story
    2007-01-07 19:00:00 EST
  • Tracking Electronics’ 'Killer App’
    No one knows what the electronics industry’s so-called “killer app” will be in the next ten years, but experts are betting it will emerge from the automotive or medical markets. Full Story
    2007-01-08 08:05:00 EST
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