Title: Proving Ground
Description: How six women moved from being computers to being the original programmers of the world’s first powerful electronic brain, the ENIAC.
Subjects: computer programming, computing history, ENIAC, mechanical computation, women in technology
Places: Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Institute for Advanced Studiy, the Moore School, Philadelphia
People: Frances Bilas, J. Prosper Eckert, Herman Goldstine, Jean Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, John Mauchly, Kathleen McNulty, John von Neumann, Frances Elizabeth Snyder, Maryland Wescoff
Time periods: 1940s to 1950s