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
When Women Were Software
As a mathematician, Grace Murray Hopper was advocating the elimination of the work of programmers altogether, proposing instead a concept of fully automatic programming
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