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A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who
launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race
for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the
top-secret computing research started during World War II, among
them six gifted mathematicians: a patriotic Quaker, a Jewish
bookworm, a Yugoslav genius, a native Gaelic speaker, a sophomore
from the Bronx, and a farmer's daughter from Missouri. Their
mission? Programming the world's first and only
supercomputer-before any code or programming languages existed.
These pioneers triumphed against sexist attitudes and huge
technical challenges to invent computer programming, yet their
monumental contribution has never been recognised-until now. Over a
decade, Kathy Kleiman met with four of the original six ENIAC
Programmers and recorded their stories. Here, with a light touch
and a serious mind, she exposes the deliberate erasure of their
achievements and restores the women to their rightful place as
revolutionaries, bringing to life their camaraderie, their
determination, and their rapidly changing world. As big tech
struggles with gender inequality and momentum builds in restoring
women to history, the time has come for this engrossing story to be
uncovered and celebrated.
"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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