CITP Seminar: Kathy Kleiman – Author of Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army needed thousands of them. In an attempt to speed up the calculations, the Army agreed to fund the creation of a truly experimental machine – the world’s first all-electronic, general-purpose, programmable computer with 18,000 vacuum tubes. When the huge Electronic Numeric Integrator and Compute...
Kathy Kleiman Internet Governance Lab Princeton University Media Central Boston University School Of Law Research Fellow Kathy Kleiman Research Scholar
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