The Women who Programmed ENIAC Two women operating ENIAC is all we have to say about the women who programmed ENIAC The source site for the image captions it as follows Two women operating the ENIAC s main control panel while the machine was still located at the Moore School U S Army Photo from the archives of the ARL Technical Library Left Betty Jennings Mrs Bryant Right Frances Bilas Mrs Spence We should at least mention the two best known ENIAC programmers Betty Snyder Holberton and Jean Jennings Bartik Betty Holberton Jean Bartik The front lines History of software begins with the work of some brainy women Petzinger Thomas Jr The Wall Street Journal Nov 15 1996 B1 wsj com confirms that an article with this title and author was published but they don t post archive full text online