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ENIAC, the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer / by McCartney, Scott.(CARDINAL)363908;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index.1180L
Subjects: Electronic digital computers; Computer industry;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Proving ground [audio-enabled device] the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer / by Kleiman, Kathy,author.; Bennett, Erin,narrator.(CARDINAL)352046; Findaway World, LLC.,issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio,issuing body.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Erin Bennett."Fans of Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe and Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures are in for a treat" (Publishers Weeky) with this untold, World War II-era story of the six 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.Adult.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Computer programmers; ENIAC (Computer); Women computer programmers;
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Proving ground : the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer / by Kleiman, Kathy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-280) and index."After the end of World War II, top-secret research 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 - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds rather than forty hours by human hand - even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence. But their story, never told to the reporters and scientists who thronged the huge computer after it became public, was lost. Kathy Kleiman, through meticulous research and vivid prose, brings these women back to life, and back into the historical record. For more than two decades, she met with four of the original six ENIAC Programmers, poured over documentation and images, and recorded extensive oral histories with the women about their work. She found stories that had been relegated and dismissed by even computer history experts, who had assumed the women in the old black-and-white pictures with ENIAC were nothing more than models. PROVING GROUND is a character-driven narrative that 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."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Computer programmers; ENIAC (Computer); Women computer programmers;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 33
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Programmers / by Gibson, Karen Bush,author.(CARDINAL)703237; Shululu(Hui Li),illustrator.(CARDINAL)354910;
Includes bibliographical references (page 105) and index.Ada Lovelace -- Grace Hopper -- The Eniac women -- Dorothy Vaughan -- Margaret Hamilton."Real-world technology projects pair up with ... biographies of female computer scientists to make a ... book that will have kids ages 8 to 11 eager to develop their own apps"--Publisher marketing.Ages 8-11.870LGuided Reading level
Subjects: Biographies.; Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852; Hopper, Grace Murray; Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008; Hamilton, Margaret Heafield, 1936-; ENIAC (Computer); Women computer programmers; Computer programming;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Women who launched the computer age / by Calkhoven, Laurie,author.(CARDINAL)356898; Petersen, Alyssa,illustrator.(CARDINAL)356897;
The story of Jean Jennings, Kay McNulty, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff, who were chosen to work on the ENIAC computer.True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --Age 6-8.880LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Women computer scientists; Computer scientists; Women computer programmers; Computer programmers; ENIAC (Computer); Computer industry;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 29
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Instructions not included : how a team of women coded the future / by Brown, Tami Lewis,author.(CARDINAL)492371; Beck, Chelsea,1994-illustrator.(CARDINAL)814373; Dunn, Debbie Loren,author.(CARDINAL)814372;
Includes bibliographical references."The nonfiction story of a team of women innovators, Jean Jennings Bartik, Kay McNulty Mauchly, and Betty Snyder Holberton, who programmed early computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)"--Age 6-8.890LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Picture books.; Antonelli, Kathleen; Bartik, Jean; Holberton, Frances E.; Computer scientists; ENIAC (Computer); Women computer scientists;
Available copies: 29 / Total copies: 29
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Cape / by Hannigan, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)354921; Spaziante, Patrick,illustrator.(CARDINAL)423039;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323).Soon after being recruited by the mysterious Mrs. Boudica to join a secret military intelligence operation, Josie, Mae, and Akiko discover their superhero abilities and use them to thwart a Nazi plot to steal the ENIAC computer.760LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Superhero fiction.; Fiction.; Superheroes; Children's secrets; Computers; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 62 / Total copies: 65
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You should meet women who launched the computer age / by Calkhoven, Laurie.(CARDINAL)356898;
Subjects: Computers.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Women in technology / by Schmermund, Elizabeth,author.(CARDINAL)340546;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Women and technology in the ancient world -- Women's innovations during the Middle Ages -- Technology in the Renaissance and the early modern period -- Women inventors in the long nineteenth century -- Advances for women in the twentieth century -- Women in technology today.Junior Library GuildStastics tell us that women are underrepresented in STEM careers. Yet women have created many of technology's greatest innovations. Ada Lovelace is considered one of the world's first computer programmers. Six women were the programmers of the ENIAC computer during WWII. While women's contributions to technology are often overlooked, this book celebrates the lives and accomplishments of women inventors and innovators throughout history. Learn about these remarkable women who changed science, technology, and the world as we know it.--backcoverAges 11-13.Grades 6-8.1230LAccelerated Reader ARA Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subjects: Technology; Women in technology; Technology; Women in technology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Coders : the making of a new tribe and the remaking of the world / by Thompson, Clive,1968-author.(CARDINAL)404945;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-422) and index.The software update that changed reality -- The four waves of coders -- Constant frustration and bursts of joy -- Among the INTJs -- The cult of efficiency -- 10x, rock stars, and the myth of meritocracy -- The ENIAC girls vanish -- Hackers, crackers, and freedom fighters -- Cucumbers, Skynet, and rise of the AI -- Scale, trolls, and big tech -- Blue-collar coding."From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and what should give us pause"--
Subjects: Computer programmers.; Computer programming; Computer programming; Interpersonal relations.; Information technology;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14
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