Proving Ground
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781538718285
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: The women walked down the stairs from the second floor, their saddle shoes squishing against the marble.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: Cast of Characters
pagenum: ix; title: Preface
pagenum: xv; title: The Double Doors Open
pagenum: 1; title: Looking for Women Math Majors
pagenum: 5; title: We Were Stranger There
pagenum: 19; title: Nestled in a Corner of the Base
pagenum: 25; title: Give Other People as Much Credit as You Give Yourself
pagenum: 31; title: We Found Things in a Not Very Good State
pagenum: 40; title: Adding Machines and Radar
pagenum: 43; title: 3437 Walnut Street
pagenum: 52; title: The Monster in the Basement
pagenum: 63; title: The Lost Memo
pagenum: 68; title: “Give Goldstine the Money”
pagenum: 76; title: Dark Days of the War
pagenum: 79; title: “All That Machinery Just to Do One Little Thing Like That”
pagenum: 83; title: The Kissing Bridge
pagenum: 89; title: Are You Scared of Electricity?
pagenum: 99; title: Learning It Her Way
pagenum: 105; title: Surrounded by Vultures
pagenum: 114; title: The Dean’s Antechamber
pagenum: 118; title: A New Project
pagenum: 124; title: Divide and Conquer
pagenum: 129; title: A Sequencing of the Problem
pagenum: 137; title: A Tremendously Big Thing
pagenum: 141; title: Programs and Pedaling Sheets
pagenum: 147; title: Bench Tests and Best Friends
pagenum: 152; title: Parallel Programming
pagenum: 155; title: Sines and Cosines
pagenum: 159; title: The ENIAC Room Is Theirs!
pagenum: 165; title: The Last Bugs Before Demonstration Day
pagenum: 172; title: Demonstration Day, February 15, 1946
pagenum: 175; title: A Strange Afterparty
pagenum: 184; title: Hundred-Year Problems and Programmers Needed
pagenum: 189; title: The More School Lectures
pagenum: 194; title: Their Own Adventures
pagenum: 198; title: ENIAC 5 in and around Aberdeen
pagenum: 204; title: A New Life
pagenum: 214; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 221; title: Postscript
pagenum: 233; title: Endnotes
pagenum: 245; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 273; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 281; title: Index
pagenum: 287; title: About the Author
pagenum: 297