A documentary titled The Computers: The Remarkable Story of the ENIAC Programmers, tells a story women who developed America’s first electronic computer to automate ballistic computations during World War II. In the film, the six programmers share their stories about their hard work alongside over two hundred other women, both civilian and military, who were doing the computations before the machine came to replace them. Why, despite the massive contribution, the programmers were not introduced to the public when ENIAC was released to the public in 1946? This week, I look at the historical paradox where women were celebrated during the war as breaking into the ”male” territories of science, technology and engineering, yet at the same time, no-one heard much about their contribution in the early days of computer science. Like to help this blog going? Tell your friends about it, like and share the post. Check out the full blog post here: https://bit.ly/XXXX

Margaret Hamilton did not simply help put the man to the Moon. She had also invented the concept that would go along to create a major paradigm shift in ideas that people have about computers. She was the first person to make a difference between hardware and software. How do you come up with an idea of such scale and influence? - I was asking myself while watching through the video clip shared on Google’s blog a year ago. In the video, set in Mojave desert, California, we see a giant portrait of Hamilton. It is made out of mirrors that catch the moon light when darkness falls over the desert, illuminating all at once. The graphic qualities of the portrait aside, you can look at it and marvel at the tribute that earthlings pay to the legendary Apollo flight software designer, a team lead who made it possible to set human feet onto the Moon surface.

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