Female Inventors: The Wonder Women who were the first computers. Yes, that is where the name comes from . . . the women who did it by hand, who did the math with pencils and paper! We were the computers, we figured it out by ourselves and we win the smart-epants award.
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These People are COMPUTER PIONEERS.
Computer Wonder Women
Everyone speaks about the Father of the Internet, well . . . Meet the UNKNOWN MOTHERS!
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'WOMEN WANTED!'
The Army wanted women with mathematics degrees to
HAND CALCULATE
the firing trajectories of artillery for the war effort.
...At 83, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik -- a devoted bridge player and
grandmother of five -- had a secret past that was invisible to many who
knew her.Her grandson Alex knew her story. He stormed out of school one
day when his teacher refused to believe his gray-haired granny was a
computer pioneer who had calculated firing tables and ballistic
trajectories during World War II. The boy's parents had to explain to
the teacher that Bartik and five other women had, indeed, legally
hacked one of the world's first computers, converting it into a stored
machine and eventually helping to usher in the digital age.
First Computer Programmers Inspire Documentary
Decline in Numbers of Women in Computer Science Threatens U.S.
Competitiveness, Say Experts By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES Dec. 4, 2007 (ABCNews)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3951187&page=1During World War II the Army ran out of male mathematicians and turned to six women to program the world's first computer - ENIAC. Historian Kathy Kleiman (left) has recorded oral histories of these women - now in their 80s - in her upcoming documentary film, "Invisible Computers."