Betty Holberton, one of the six original programmers of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was born Frances Elizabeth Snyder ...

The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department. In a small corner of the University ...

First computer programmers were women; they figured it out without manuals. Dec. 4, 2007 — -- At 83, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik -- a devoted bridge player and grandmother of five -- had a secret ...

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 ...

Excerpted from the book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman. Copyright © 2022 by ...

The ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, is essentially the Great Great Grandfather of whatever device you’re currently reading these words on. Developed during World War II for ...

30 years before Steve Jobs introduced his first computer, there was a 30-ton computer named ENIAC. In many ways ENIAC was one of the biggest computer stories of the 20th century. According to the ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), revealed to the public in 1946, was the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer. Built in secret by the US Army during World War II, ...

Arthur W. Burks, a member of the team that designed the Eniac computer, a frequent collaborator of John von Neumann and a pioneer in computing education, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Ann Arbor, ...