An edition of Proving Ground
(2022)
Proving Ground
The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
by Kathy Kleiman
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How six women moved from being computers to being the original programmers of the world’s first powerful electronic brain, the ENIAC.
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computer programming, computing history, ENIAC, mechanical computation, women in technologyPeople
Frances Bilas, J. Prosper Eckert, Herman Goldstine, Jean Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, John Mauchly, Kathleen McNulty, John von Neumann, Frances Elizabeth Snyder, Maryland WescoffPlaces
Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Institute for Advanced Studiy, the Moore School, PhiladelphiaTimes
1940s to 1950sShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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First Sentence
"The women walked down the stairs from the second floor, their saddle shoes squishing against the marble."
Table of Contents
Contents
Page vii
Cast of Characters
Page ix
Preface
Page xv
The Double Doors Open
Page 1
Looking for Women Math Majors
Page 5
We Were Stranger There
Page 19
Nestled in a Corner of the Base
Page 25
Give Other People as Much Credit as You Give Yourself
Page 31
We Found Things in a Not Very Good State
Page 40
Adding Machines and Radar
Page 43
3437 Walnut Street
Page 52
The Monster in the Basement
Page 63
The Lost Memo
Page 68
“Give Goldstine the Money”
Page 76
Dark Days of the War
Page 79
“All That Machinery Just to Do One Little Thing Like That”
Page 83
The Kissing Bridge
Page 89
Are You Scared of Electricity?
Page 99
Learning It Her Way
Page 105
Surrounded by Vultures
Page 114
The Dean’s Antechamber
Page 118
A New Project
Page 124
Divide and Conquer
Page 129
A Sequencing of the Problem
Page 137
A Tremendously Big Thing
Page 141
Programs and Pedaling Sheets
Page 147
Bench Tests and Best Friends
Page 152
Parallel Programming
Page 155
Sines and Cosines
Page 159
The ENIAC Room Is Theirs!
Page 165
The Last Bugs Before Demonstration Day
Page 172
Demonstration Day, February 15, 1946
Page 175
A Strange Afterparty
Page 184
Hundred-Year Problems and Programmers Needed
Page 189
The More School Lectures
Page 194
Their Own Adventures
Page 198
ENIAC 5 in and around Aberdeen
Page 204
A New Life
Page 214
Epilogue
Page 221
Postscript
Page 233
Endnotes
Page 245
Selected Bibliography
Page 273
Acknowledgments
Page 281
Index
Page 287
About the Author
Page 297
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| August 4, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| December 30, 2022 | Edited by frstndlstlns | added von neumann |
| December 30, 2022 | Edited by frstndlstlns | added description |
| September 30, 2021 | Created by ImportBot | import new book |