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Proving Ground - The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer (Hardcover)
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Proving Ground - The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer (Hardcover)
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"Fans of Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe and Margot Lee Shetterly's
Hidden Figures are in for a treat" (Publishers Weeky) with this
untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who
programmed the world's first modern computer. After the end of
World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on.
Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the
war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United
States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their
confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women,
tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first
general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer--better
known as the ENIAC-- even though there were no instruction codes or
programming languages in existence. While most students of computer
history are aware of this innovative machine, the great
contributions of the women who programmed it were never told --
until now. Over the course of a decade, Kathy Kleiman met with four
of the original six ENIAC Programmers and recorded extensive
interviews with the women about their work. PROVING GROUND restores
these women to their rightful place as technological
revolutionaries. As the tech world continues to struggle with
gender imbalance and its far-reaching consequences, the story of
the ENIAC Programmers' groundbreaking work is more urgently
necessary than ever before, and PROVING GROUND is the celebration
they deserve.
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