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 ...

Sixty-eight years ago this month, construction began quietly on ENIAC, the first electronic computer that was built for the U.S. Army to speed up the calculation of ordnance trajectories for soldiers ...

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 ...

In 1946 a team of six young women mathematicians made computer science history by programming the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It’s called ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator ...

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 ...

"Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the Worlds First Modern Computer" by by Kathy Kleiman. When the world's first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, ...

PROVING GROUND: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing. 320 pages. $30. When the world’s first general-purpose, ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

This cover image released by Grand Central Publishing shows "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer" by Kathy Kleiman. (Grand Central ...

The history of technology, whether of the last five or five hundred years, is often told as a series of pivotal events or the actions of larger-than-life individuals, of endless “revolutions” and ...