Celebrate this milestone of the worlds first all electronic, programmable computer!
ENIAC DAY EVENTS- WORLDWIDE on 80th Anniversary, February 15
DISTRIBUTED EVENTS, WORLDWIDE
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Because of the 24 hour, roving time zones all over the globe, there is no single, central, physical event. Like the EARTH DAY format, there are many events distributed worldwide which are organized and hosted by supporters of ENIAC DAY, on or near February 15th. Scan the partial list below and join in yourself where the invitation is offered.
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ENIAC Day unites people world wide to get to know how ENIAC was created in Philadelphia, the crucible of the computer age, and to participate in a single-day celebration that fosters education, enables participation and stimulates communication that highlights the achievements of the computing industry.
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There are many ways you can get involved both individually and/or collectively to make a difference in telling how the masons of the computer generation laid down the original building blocks of computing with the ENIAC. Whether you organize an outreach event in your company, community or institution, inspire the public through a professional society or chapter, help a teacher to bring it into the classroom or become a donor or sponsor, you can be an advocate for ENIAC Day! Post with hashtag #ENIACDay on all your social media channels.
80th Anniversary of ENIAC - Celebrate in person or on Zoom
Re: 80th Anniversary Celebration of ENIAC
American Helicopter Museum, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
February 15th, 2026 (Sunday)
Starting at museum open at 1PM (EST)
Celebratory Video Presentation runs two hours from 2PM-4PM (EST) from the museum Auditorium
Afterwards is 1 hour duration meet and greet.
Museum closes at 5PM (EST)
This is also a virtual/online/hybrid event on the Zoom Platform.
Invitations via Helicopter Museum and Compuseum
Sign Up Here: https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration
Event Title: ENIAC Founders, Families and Futures - 80 Years On
Presentation on Zoom and in Auditorium
Kickoff By:
Paul Kahan (CEO- Helicopter Museum) 2 minutes
Jim Scherrer (CEO- Compuseum) 2 minutes
Keynote - Kathy Kleiman - "The Incredible People of the ENIAC Team: Why We Still Celebrate Them 80 Years Later." A Deep Dive Into Proving Ground People by Author- "Proving Grounds; The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer." Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/0eu2p78z (Confirmed - In person)
Brian Stuart - "The ENIAC in Context"
A deep technical dive into how the master programmer makes the ENIAC satisfy the criteria necessary for universality in the Turing sense and to clarify the relationship between Turing's work and that of Mauchly and Eckert. (Confirmed - In Person)
Paul Ceruzzi - "Perspective on ENIAC, 80 years On" Author "A New History of Modern Computing" book along with Tom Haigh. (Confirmed Virtual)
Tom Burick - "How Today's High School Students built a full sized replica of ENIAC, from scratch!" IT Instructor, PS Academy, Arizona. Also, presentation by student leader Ethan Myers. (Confirmed, In Person)
Bill Mauchly - "Giant Brain Takes Over the World" the story we can never let go of. Bill is from First Family of Computing - Son of John Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person)
Chris Eckert - "Recollections of My Dad" First Family of Computing - Son of J. Presper Eckert (Confirmed, Virtual)
Gini Mauchly - "What Kay McNulty would Tell you about How to Be Successful." First Family of Computing - Daughter of John Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty Mauchly (Confirmed, In Person)
Naomi Most - "Did my IT career result from my DNA" Granddaughter of Kay McNulty (Confirmed, Virtual)
Dr. Tim Bartik - "Recollections of My Mother". Son of Jean Jennings Bartik, 1st ENIAC Programmer (Confirmed, Virtual)
Jeffrey Yost - "The ENIAC's Unveiling: Shaping Metaphors and Meanings in Computing" Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Confirmed, In Person)
Paul Shaffer - "How the ENIAC made Quadrotor Drones Possible; From Vacuum Tubes to Vertical Flight" ENIAC Historian at PENN- (Confirmed, In Person)
Kenneth Chaney "See PENN's Supercomputer" with Associate Director of AI and Technology for PARCC - Visitors will see the Betty Holberton supercomputer at PENN (named after Betty Holberton, ENIAC programmer) https://parcc.upenn.edu/systems/betty/
(Confirmed, On Site)
Q&A Session - 10 Minutes - Audience asks Questions directed to speakers. Moderated by Jim Scherrer and Kathy Kleiman
Show & Tell - See quadcopter, ENIAC 3D models and members can show off their ENIAC equipment or memorabilia.
Wrap Up Thank you from - Jim Scherrer (Compuseum); Paul Kahan (Helicopter Museum)
Group Photo in front of Auditorium.
1 hour "ENIAC Cake" party at the museum (4-5PM) then after-party.
SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Kathy Kleiman, Senior Fellow, Programs on Tech, Law & Security and Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law, Author of "Proving Ground," and Founder of the ENIAC Programmers Project. Twenty years of work at ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to research the structure and balance of private Internet governance systems, privacy & Internet technologies. If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Kleimans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the computer age--written out of history, until now. Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/0eu2p78z
Brian Stuart, PhD is a professor of Computer Science at Drexel University. He hold a BS from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an MS from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD from Purdue University. His primary research for the past ten years has been uncovering the details of the design, operation, and programming of the ENIAC.
Paul Ceruzzi is Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. He has published extensively on topics in the history of computing and aerospace. His most recent publications include "GPS: a Concise History," "Computing: A Concise History"--both part of MIT Press's Essential Knowledge Series, And, with Tom Haigh, "A New History of Modern Computing."
Tom Burick - Teacher at PS Academy in Gilbert, Arizona. PS Academy is a private high school for students with autism and other exceptionalities. which offers customized programs, clubs and electives, and ability-based learning with a focus on social skills improvement. Thomas Burick is a technology educator and lifelong builder who led a student team in reconstructing ENIAC at full scale, using the world’s first electronic computer as a hands-on lesson in precision, repetition, and large-scale engineering.
Ethan Myers is a dedicated student at PS Academy with a strong interest in learning and personal growth. He is known for his curiosity, positive attitude, and willingness to take on new challenges. Ethan enjoys developing his skills both inside and outside the classroom and is motivated to work toward his academic and future goals.
Bill Mauchly is the son of John W. Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty, two pioneers whose work on ENIAC, UNIVAC, and early programming helped define the very foundations of modern computing. As part of the "first family of computers," Bill has carried forward that legacy through a career that bridges advanced technology, digital creativity, and the preservation of computing history.
Gini Mauchly Calcerano is the Senior Director of Research and Data Management in the Office of Institutional Advancement at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, where her mom, an ENIAC programmer, earned her degree in mathematics. She is the daughter of John W. Mauchly and Kay McNulty, whose pioneering work on ENIAC, UNIVAC, and early programming helped define the very foundations of modern computing. As part of the "first family of computers," Gini has carried forward that legacy.
Naomi Most, granddaughter of John Mauchly and Kay McNulty, is a social systems debugger. She helps R&D and engineering orgs move beyond process ruts and unlock real innovation. She is an IT practitioner that builds the invisible frameworks that help technical teams break through creative bottlenecks and rediscover their spark. Naomi had a background spanning software engineering, systems thinking, and organizational anthropology
Tim Bartik, PhD is a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a non-profit and non-partisan research organization in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His research focuses on state and local economic development policies and local labor markets. At the Upjohn Institute, Dr. Bartik co-directs the Institute’s research initiative on place-based policies.
Jeffrey R. Yost is Director, Charles Babbage Institute and Research Professor, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota. He has published nine books. His four most recent books are Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (co-edited with G. Con Diaz, JHU Press); Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press); Computer: A History of the Information Machine 4th ed. (co-authored, Routledge); and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World (co-authored with Tom Misa, JHU Press). He co-edits Studies in Computing Culture book series for Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Press.
Paul Shaffer is the ENIAC Historian at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as a steward and interpreter of the world’s first general-purpose electronic digital computer. He has spent more than three decades championing the ENIAC artifact - researching its history, preserving its story, and translating its technical significance. A helicopter pilot, Paul brings an aviator’s perspective on systems, risk, and disciplined procedure to his work in technology and public history. He is also a commercial UAS (drone) instructor. Paul is known for making ENIAC both legible and vivid: not only as a landmark machine, but as a human achievement shaped by ingenuity, constraint, and collaboration. As ENIAC approaches its 80th anniversary in 2026, he continues to help ensure the machine’s technical and cultural impact remains accurately understood, widely shared, and meaningfully remembered.
Kenneth Chaney, PhD is the Associate Director of AI and Technology at the Penn Advanced Research Computing Center (PARCC), where he helps the deployment of Betty—Penn’s university-wide HPC + AI platform built to scale modern research workloads across campus. Betty’s flagship AI and HPC systems provide not only a doubling of the total compute capacity at the University of Pennsylvania, but also enable new avenues of exploration through scaling the largest computational experiments possible on campus. Prior to taking this role, Kenneth received his PhD from the computer science department at the University of Pennsylvania where his research focused on deploying biologically inspired AI systems.
REFERENCES & SUGGESTED READING
A New History of Modern Computing: Co-Author Dr. Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi Purchase book here: https://a.co/d/0ighKnFX
Proving Grounds; Author: Kathy Kleiman - Purchase Book here: https://a.co/d/01pSFoIG
Computer: A History of the Information Machine. Link to Amazon:
https://z.umn.edu/Computer_A_History
How Students Built a Replica of ENIAC. PC Magazine 2026
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If you come in person you can meet people, watch 3D animation of the ENIAC, meet book authors, purchase special books, see special exhibits and eat ENIAC CAKE!
Special Note: This event is Coincident with Americas Semiquincentennial! (250th) Watch Here: https://www.britannica.com/video/how-to-pronounce-semiquincentennial-and-what-it-means/-326853
If you are unable to attend, you can review a recording of this event after it is published on this site. In addition, please post on your social media channels a shout out to "Happy Birthday ENIAC" with hashtag #ENIACDay
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