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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.
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