What We Are Reading Today: Proving Ground

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Tue, 2022-08-23 23:40

Author: Kathy Kleiman

Kathy Kleiman’s Proving Ground tells the story of six pioneering women who were tasked with figuring out how to program the world’s first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer — better known as the ENIAC.

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.

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