Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kleiman, Kathy
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kleiman, Kathy

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer

Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story...
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SKU: 9781538718292
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Author: Kathy Kleiman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kleiman, Kathy

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer

$51.74
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kleiman, Kathy

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer

$51.74
Author: Kathy Kleiman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story of the American women who programmed the world's first modern computer.

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.

Author: Kathy Kleiman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.58w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781538718292

About the Author
Kathy Kleiman is a leader in Internet law and policy and currently teaches at American University Washington College of Law. Her passion for finding the truth behind these female programmers led to her founding the ENIAC Programmers Project, which completed a documentary on the subject of this book titled "The Computers: The Remarkable Story of the ENIAC Programmers." The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2014 and won the UNAFF Grand Jury Award For Best Short Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival in 2016.

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