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Pioneer programmer : Jean Jennings Bartik and the computer that changed the world / Jean Jennings Bartik ; autobiography, edited by John T. Rickman and Kim D. Todd.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 230 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781612480879
  • 161248087X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pioneer programmer.DDC classification:
  • 004.092 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.2.B27 A3 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: The start of something big -- The originators, the women, and the ENIAC -- My story : how it all began -- Human "computer" to ENIAC programmer -- Apricot brandy and nighttime logic -- Surrounded by brilliance -- Moving on, and the glass ceiling -- The trial to overturn the ENIAC patent -- The ENIAC women in the spotlight -- Epilogue: Looking back -- Afterword / by Kim D. Todd.
Summary: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"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."--Jacket.

Prologue: The start of something big -- The originators, the women, and the ENIAC -- My story : how it all began -- Human "computer" to ENIAC programmer -- Apricot brandy and nighttime logic -- Surrounded by brilliance -- Moving on, and the glass ceiling -- The trial to overturn the ENIAC patent -- The ENIAC women in the spotlight -- Epilogue: Looking back -- Afterword / by Kim D. Todd.

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