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The world's first programmable computer was the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology, and it restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.

Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collinwood from the band "Fountains of Wayne" and novelist Scott Spenser are on this edition of Fresh Air. Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collinwood are co-founders of "Fountains of Wayne". Their new album Welcome Interstate Managers has just been released. Anchored by the song writing team of Chris and Adam , the New York-based band released its debut album Radiation Vibe in late 1996.

This book provides strategies and management practices tried and tested by the mob, allowing your company to thrive and beat your competition without even needing a baseball bat!

John Adams was one of his country's seminal Founding Fathers and one of its most experienced, distinguished diplomats and politicians. Few men in American history have a record anywhere near comparable, but one of them happened to be Adams's own son, John Quincy Adams. And yet, few Americans are familiar with him aside from the fact that he was his father's son and the sixth president of the United States.