Sixty-eight years ago this month, construction began quietly on ENIAC, the first electronic computer that was built for the U.S. Army to speed up the calculation of ordnance trajectories for soldiers ...
The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it ...
When I first got interested in computers, it was all but impossible for an individual to own a computer outright. Even a “small” machine cost a fortune not to mention requiring specialized power, ...
Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings in rural Missouri in 1924 and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, always dreamed of getting out of the Midwest and having a real adventure in the world. She lived ...
User-Created Clip by zlowe August 16, 2022 2022-07-31T20:32:07-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/58d/1660666828.jpgKathy Kleiman, the author of Proving Ground and ...
"Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Supercomputer" by Kathy Kleiman (Grand Central Publishing) When the world's first general-purpose, programmable, ...
PROVING GROUND: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing. 320 pages. $30. When the world’s first general-purpose, ...
NEW YORKNEW YORK — “Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer,” by Kathy Kleiman (Grand Central Publishing) When the world’s first ...
When the world’s first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, known as ENIAC, debuted in 1946, great fanfare was given to the men who created it, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., ...
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