Imagine being a teenager and taking a cross-country road trip to the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School, where your job was to reset one of the world’s first general-purpose computers—ENIAC. This was a reality for Laura Lehmer Gould and her brother Donald Lehmer. The children of Derrick Henry Lehmer and Emma Trotskaya Lehmer, well-known number theorists at UC Berkeley who had been invited to use ENIAC for mathematical research, Laura and Donald remember their teenage years with ENIAC in this latest @CHM blog post by John Markoff.
Read “Unprogramming” the ENIAC: Lehmer Child’s Play” on @CHM or Medium.