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Remembering the Women Who Programmed ENIAC

Original: ENIAC Programmers (2011)

A 2011 piece on the ENIAC programmers is drawing fresh attention. The six women hired by the US Army to program the pioneering ENIAC computer at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s were long overlooked in computing history, and readers are sharing the Columbia University computing history page documenting their work and legacy.

Why now: Readers are revisiting the underrecognized history of the first computer programmers

ENIACUniversity of PennsylvaniaUS ArmyColumbia University

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