Women in Computing

June 16, 2008

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Women as Computers: The term “computer” originally referred to the women in charge of manipulating the levers and cables that connected the room-sized machines’ various calculating components to produce differential equation outputs. Here, two women wire the right side of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946) with a new program. Standing: Ester Gerston. Crouching: Gloria Ruth Gorden. Photo Credit that must accompany this image: U.S. Army Photo.

Women in Computing: An early marketing example. Credit: the Babbage Institute.

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