[ACM-W] Jean Bartik: the untold story of a remarkable ENIAC programmer

Bettina Bair bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu
Tue Dec 23 21:22:39 EST 2008


"For many years in the computing industry, ... the software was
considered an auxiliary thing."
– Jean Bartik

For more than 50 years, the women of Electronic Numerical Integrator
And Computer (ENIAC) were forgotten, and their role in programming the
first all-electronic programmable computer and creating the software
industry lost.

read more: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/jean-bartik-untold-story-of-remarkable.html

Kathy Kleiman discovered the ENIAC Programmers 20 years ago and
founded the ENIAC Programmers Project to record their stories and
produce the first feature documentary about their work. More at
www.eniacprogrammers.org.



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