just going downstairs today, i saw a shot of me in the eniac display. you never know where life takes you, do you? >> think you. -- thank you. [applause] all these papers at the institute are terribly disorganized. so we went down into the basement. and akrevoe emmanouilides said, let me organize them. i did not leave them in this state of disorder. [laughter] you do not have to pay me. let the archivist know they have to be preserved in the state in which they were found. >> i think one of the things george talked about, the institute itself. perhaps some of you have been to the institute. but the institute is now, and certainly at that time, was a very unique lace -- place. it was founded by a family who owned department stores in newark. and george can correct me. they certainly saw what was coming in europe. and they brought professor einstein and newman. the names that are all in the history books. brought them to the institute to this absolutely beautiful landscape. and i remember seeing professor einstein walking with kurt go dell, coming to the i

it can be traced other people and that the eniac was a pioneering thing. because he was scientific advisor to the ballistic research board, he got to see it. when he sought he immediately saw what to do. i think part of that is visual. when the eniac is running, you're seeing the bits, the lights moving around. you can see the numbers and you are within the computation. and he had that kind of mind. i think the moment he saw that that he could see all this other stuff coming. >> by the way, the eniac was physically built you are , literally standing at the it was like 16 cores on a chip. where you divide the competition into parallel paths. >> herman goldstein, who was instrumental working with them, says that when he saw it for the first time, the eniac, it changed his life forever. >> certainly. >> are there von neumann's own words that express what he was feeling? everything that had been theoretical for him now becomes physical and real. >> yes. there are words.

with these six women who were doing -- you no women mathematicians doing the programming about 20 engineers and they built eniac and it worked. it is it is a sign that the lone inventor can't do it in the digital age. you need that team. >> sometimes when you have a team it doesn't work either. >> and if you have a team without a visionary. visionary. i mean,, vision without execution is just a loose nation. but if you have a lot of execution but don't have a visionary driving it then it becomes barren. barren. whether you look at the transistor done at bell labs german by two or three visionaries shockley bardeen, bratton, the original computer driven by motley eckert, the six women programmers you have to have the right combination of visionaries and team that can execute. >> and timing. >> i'm sorry. >> and timing. if you are a startup trying to bring things to market there are so many things today that you can look back ten ten years ago and say that company tried it but it was too early for poorly executed or whatever. >> the right seeds have to fall on fertile ground. >> at the right time, time, too when

the programming. about 20 engineers, people knew how to get grease under their fingernails, and they built eniac and itorks. it's kind of a sign you can't do it alone in the digital age you need that team. >> and times if you have a team, it doesn't work, either. >> and if you have a team without a visionary, vision without execution is just ha louis hallucination. but if you have a lot of execution but not a vision driving it then it becomes bearing. but when you look at the transis transistor or the original computer driven by mockley and the six women programmers, you have to have that right combination ofçó visionaries and the team who can actually care. >> and timing, if you're a stafrt start-up trying to bring a thing to market, there are so many things today that you can look back ten years and say, oh yeah, that company tried it but it was tooe1 early. >> they have to fall on fertile ground. >> at the right time, too, when things are available you need to actually make it grow. >> we're almost out of time, but there was one thing i saw you mention which was very interesting in that you mentione