Jean Bartik (nonfiction)
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Jean Jennings Bartik (December 27, 1924 – March 23, 2011) was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
She studied mathematics in school, then began work at the University of Pennsylvania, first manually calculating ballistics trajectories, then using ENIAC to do so.
She and her colleagues developed and codified many of the fundamentals of programming while working on the ENIAC, since it was the first computer of its kind.
After her work on ENIAC, Bartik went on to work on BINAC and UNIVAC, and spent time at a variety of technical companies as a writer, manager, engineer and programmer.
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- Jean Bartik @ Wikipedia