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Proving ground : the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer / Kathy Kleiman.

by Kleiman, Kathy, author.

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New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022.

Women computer programmers -- United States -- Biography.

Computer programmers -- United States -- Biography.

ENIAC (Computer)

9781538718285 (hardcover) :

1538718286 (hardcover) :

xix, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

The double doors open -- Looking for women math majors -- We were strangers there -- Nestled in a corner of the base -- Give other people as much credit as you give yourself -- We found things in a not very good state -- Adding machines and radar -- 3436 Walnut Street -- The monster in the basement -- The lost memo -- "Give Goldstine the money" -- Dark days of the war -- "All that machinery just to do one little thing like that" -- The kissing bridge -- Are you scared of electricity? -- Learning it her way -- Surrounded by vultures -- The dean's antechamber -- A new project -- Divide and conquer -- A sequencing of the problem -- A tremendously big thing -- Programs and pedaling sheets -- Bench tests and best friends -- Parallel programming -- Sines and cosines -- The ENIAC room is theirs! -- The last bugs before demonstration day -- Demonstration day, February 15, 1946 -- A strange afterparty -- Hundred-year problems and programmers needed -- The Moore school lectures -- Their own adventures -- ENIAC 5 in and around Aberdeen -- A new life -- Epilogue.

"After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer--better known as the ENIAC--even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence. While most students of computer history are aware of this innovative machine, the great contributions of the women who programmed it were never told--until now. Over the course of a decade, Kathy Kleiman met with four of the original six ENIAC Programmers and recorded extensive interviews with the women about their work. PROVING GROUND restores these women to their rightful place as technological revolutionaries. As the tech world continues to struggle with gender imbalance and its far-reaching consequences, the story of the ENIAC Programmers' groundbreaking work is more urgently necessary than ever before, and PROVING GROUND is the celebration they deserve."-- Publisher.

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