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Pioneer programmer : Jean Jennings Bartik and the computer that changed the world / Jean Jennings Bartik ; autobiography edited by John T. Rickman and Kim D. Todd.

Title
  1. Pioneer programmer : Jean Jennings Bartik and the computer that changed the world / Jean Jennings Bartik ; autobiography edited by John T. Rickman and Kim D. Todd.
Published by
  1. Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2013]
  2. ©2013
Author
  1. Bartik, Jean

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Additional authors
  1. Rickman, Jon T.
  2. Todd, Kim D.
Description
  1. xxiii, 230 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "In the only autobiography by any of the six original ENIAC programmers, Bartik tells her story, exposing myths about the computer's origin and properly crediting those behind the computing innovations that shape our daily lives." -- Book jacket.
Subject
  1. Bartik, Jean
  2. 1900-1999
  3. Women computer scientists > United States > Biography
  4. Computer scientists > United States > Biography
  5. Women computer programmers > United States > Biography
  6. Women inventors > United States > Biography
  7. ENIAC (Computer) > History
  8. Computer industry > United States > History > 20th century
  9. Women in science > United States > History > 20th century
  10. Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) > United States > History > 20th century
  11. Sex discrimination against women > United States > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies
  2. History
Contents
  1. Prologue: The start of something big -- The originators, the women, and the ENIAC -- My story : how it all began -- Human "computer" to ENIAC programmer -- Apricot brandy and nighttime logic -- Surrounded by brilliance -- Moving on, and the glass ceiling -- The trial to overturn the ENIAC patent -- The ENIAC women in the spotlight -- Epilogue: Looking back -- Afterword / by Kim D. Todd.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain