Who said there were no women in the industry in the "old days"? ;)
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The secret mission of the first computer programmers
By Maria Seminerio, ZDNet
BOSTON -- Four of the pioneers of computer programming were honored at a
conference here Monday night. And, contrary to the
boys'-only image of programming, they were all women.
Jean Jennings Bartik, Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff
Meltzer and Frances "Betty" Snyder Holberton were four
of 80 women mathematicians hired by the U.S. Army during World War II to
take part in a top-secret project that would ultimately
transform them into the world's first computer programmers. At the Women
in Technology International Summit (WITI) here
Monday night, the women were all hailed as "the digital equivalents of
Rosie the Riveter."
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=n/zdnn/technology/19981020/199810201107
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