Jean Bartik, last of the original ENIAC programmers, 86

Posted by tuxchick on Mar 24, 2011 2:56 AM EDT
ComputerWorld; By Evan Koblentz
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Jean Bartik, the last of the original ENIAC programmers, died this morning. She was 86. ENIAC – the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer – was the first large-scale, fully electronic, and general-purpose computer. Its best-known application was computing firing tables for the U.S. Army, although World War II ended before the computer was finished.

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