As you are reading this post, you are almost certainly looking at a computer … a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. As I look around my shared workspace, I can see, without moving from my desk, 6 computers besides my own as well as a slew of smartphones. This is simply the world in which we live. But the world in which John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert were living in the early ...