Title :
The women of ENIAC
Author :
Fritz, W. Barkley
Author_Institution :
4 Long Point Lane, Media, PA, USA
Abstract :
A group of young women college graduates involved with the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) are identified. As a result of their education, intelligence, as well as their being at the right place and at the right time, these young women were able to perform important computer work. Many learned to use effectively “the machine that changed the world” to assist in solving some of the important scientific problems of the time. Ten of them report on their background and experiences. It is now appropriate that these women be given recognition for what they did as “pioneers” of the age of computing
Keywords :
biographies; history; human factors; integration; ENIAC; Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer; education; important computer work; intelligence; scientific problems; young women college graduates; Application software; Computer science education; Contracts; Educational institutions; Electrical capacitance tomography; Hardware; Learning systems; Military computing; Problem-solving; Programming profession;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
