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Proving Ground, the Forgotten History of Eniac Programmers, the First Programmers in History (with the Permission of Ada Lovelace)

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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing (July 22, 2022). 274 pages. In the summer of 1942 the United States Army accepted the proposal of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to design and build a computer that would be able to calculate the artillery firing boards. The idea was not only to accelerate the process, which carried out by human calcu…
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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing (July 22, 2022). 274 pages. In the summer of 1942 the United States Army accepted the proposal of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to design and build a computer that would be able to calculate the artillery firing boards. The idea was not only to accelerate the process, which carried out by human calcu…

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microsiervos.com broke the news in on Saturday, June 28, 2025.
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