Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer That

Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer That Changed the World

Finalist: 2015 USA Best Book Awards, Autobiography/Memoir -- In early 1945, the United States military was recruiting female mathematicians for a top-secret project to help win World War II. Betty Jean Jennings (Bartik), a twenty-year-old college graduate from rural northwest Missouri, wanted an adventure, so she applied for the job. She was hired as a computer to calculate artillery shell trajectories for Aberdeen Proving Ground, and later joined a team of women who programmed the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), the first successful general-purpose programmable electronic computer. In 1947, Bartik headed up a team that modified the ENIAC into the first stored-program electronic computer. Even with her talents, Bartik met obstacles in her career due to attitudes about women's roles in the workplace. Her perseverance paid off and she worked with the earliest computer pioneers and helped launch the commercial computer industry. Despite their contributions, Bartik and the other female ENIAC programmers have been largely ignored. In the only autobiography by any of the six original ENIAC programmers, Bartik tells her story, exposing myths about the computer's origin and properly crediting those behind the computing innovations that shape our daily lives.
Country USA
Brand Truman State University Press
Manufacturer Truman State Univ Pr
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 45 b/w illus
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781612480862
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Truman State University Press
Manufacturer	Truman State Univ Pr
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	45 b/w illus
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781612480862
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer That Changed the World

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