<p>On February 15, 1946, the existence of the previously classified ENIAC became front-page news in <em>The New York Times.</em> To many, this marks the start of the electronic computer age.</p>
Last fall, Mr. Swartz began an appointment as a research fellow at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics,
The university then tried to obstruct Mr. Swartz's laptop specifically, by barring the Media Access Control address, or MAC address, that the network had assigned to his computer.