The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it ...
Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings in rural Missouri in 1924 and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, always dreamed of getting out of the Midwest and having a real adventure in the world. She lived ...
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 ...
Jean Bartik, the last of the original ENIAC programmers, died this morning. She was 86. She was born Betty Jean Jennings, on Dec. 27, 1924 and raised on a Missouri farm. Her first job was as a human ...
During WWII, a top-secret project to build the first programmable digital computer was underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army was looking for a faster way to run complicated ...