Wasn't there also an Admiral Grace who helped coin the phrase "bug" after
one of their programs (vacuum tube days) wouldn't run and they found a real
bug in the system that was shorting out the connection which lead to
"debugging"?
Christie
-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Lorenzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 9:55 AM
Subject: WC:>: Women role models in computing
>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/t
echnology/19981020/199810201107
>
>B
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