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Eliot Lash

@ljrk Shout out to the original ENIAC programming team: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.

I watched some interviews with them at the Computer History Museum. This doc also looks cool:
eniacprogrammers.org/

I have heard that some black women were also involved with this project but sadly this has not been well documented and information about them may have been lost in the historical record.

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Eliot Lash

@ljrk Also shout out to Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife) also considered to be one of the first programmers:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it: lostwomenofscience.org/season-

@ljrk Also shout out to Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife) also considered to be one of the first programmers:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

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