A Pioneer Woman.
The article reports that computer programmer Jean Bartik was inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows. Bartik had no interest in a classroom career when she graduated from college in 1945, the article states. Topics include her work in programming the first general-purpose compute...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 17 - 18 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jan2009
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