The Automatic Identification Trajectory

The top-secret ENIAC project, at the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, was first made known to the public in February 1946. Reporters used 'anthropomorphic' and 'awesome characterisations' to describe the computer. In an article entitled 'The myth of the awesome thinking machine', Martin stated that the ENIAC was referred to in headlines as 'a child, a Frankenstein, a whiz kid, a predictor and controller of weather, and a wizard'.