Vice-President Al Gore was not the only visitor on campus yesterday. The "ENIAC ghost" made a mysterious appearance at the University's Graphics Lab in the Moore Building yesterday afternoon. Gore was in the middle of a photo shoot at the lab, the original room where ENIAC was invented, when some unusual events occurred. According to Shawn, a professor in the Computer Science Department -- who requested that his last name be withheld -- the spirit of ENIAC expressed itself through the medium of computers. "I am the ghost of ENIAC," said the computerized voice of the ghost. "I will not rest until there is access to the Internet." The professor said he felt the ghost was disturbed by the passage of the Communications Decency Act in the recent telecommunications reform law. According to Shawn, Gore did not react to the mysterious voice.
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