An edition of Proving Ground
(2022)
Proving Ground
The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
by Kathy Kleiman
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How six women moved from being computers to being the original programmers of the world’s first powerful electronic brain, the ENIAC.
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computer programming, computing history, ENIAC, mechanical computation, women in technologyPeople
Frances Bilas, J. Prosper Eckert, Herman Goldstine, Jean Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, John Mauchly, Kathleen McNulty, John von Neumann, Frances Elizabeth Snyder, Maryland WescoffPlaces
Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Institute for Advanced Studiy, the Moore School, PhiladelphiaTimes
1940s to 1950sShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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First Sentence
"The women walked down the stairs from the second floor, their saddle shoes squishing against the marble."
Table of Contents
Contents
Cast of Characters
Preface
The Double Doors Open
Looking for Women Math Majors
We Were Stranger There
Nestled in a Corner of the Base
Give Other People as Much Credit as You Give Yourself
We Found Things in a Not Very Good State
Adding Machines and Radar
3437 Walnut Street
The Monster in the Basement
The Lost Memo
“Give Goldstine the Money”
Dark Days of the War
“All That Machinery Just to Do One Little Thing Like That”
The Kissing Bridge
Are You Scared of Electricity?
Learning It Her Way
Surrounded by Vultures
The Dean’s Antechamber
A New Project
Divide and Conquer
A Sequencing of the Problem
A Tremendously Big Thing
Programs and Pedaling Sheets
Bench Tests and Best Friends
Parallel Programming
Sines and Cosines
The ENIAC Room Is Theirs!
The Last Bugs Before Demonstration Day
Demonstration Day, February 15, 1946
A Strange Afterparty
Hundred-Year Problems and Programmers Needed
The More School Lectures
Their Own Adventures
ENIAC 5 in and around Aberdeen
A New Life
Epilogue
Postscript
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Edition Notes
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The Physical Object
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| August 4, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| December 30, 2022 | Edited by frstndlstlns | added von neumann |
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