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03036aim a2200421 i 4500 001 E11E15D268C411EE82CCA71150ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231012010128 007 cs nza|||auuuu 007 sz zunznnnzneu 008 221102s2022 ohunnnne h n eng d 020 $a 1668626179 020 $a 9781668626177 028 02 $a 43960 $b Findaway World 035 $a (OCoLC)1349964064 040 $a UOJ $b eng $c UOJ $d UOJ $d IM9 $d SILO 050 $a QA76.2.A2 $b K56 2022 082 04 $a 004.092 100 1 $a Kleiman, Kathy, $e author. 245 10 $a Proving ground : $b the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer / $c Kathy Kleiman. 264 1 $a Solon, Ohio : $b Findaway World, LLC, $c [2022] 300 $a 1 audio media player : $b digital, HD audio ; $c 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. 500 $a Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. 500 $a One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. 511 0 $a Read by Erin Bennett. 520 $a "'Fans of Dava Sobels The Glass Universe and Margot Lee Shetterlys Hidden Figures are in for a treat' (Publishers Weeky) with this untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who programmed the world's first modern computer. After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer -- better known as the ENIAC -- even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence. While most students of computer history are aware of this innovative machine, the great contributions of the women who programmed it were never told -- until now. Over the course of a decade, Kathy Kleiman met with four of the original six ENIAC Programmers and recorded extensive interviews with the women about their work. PROVING GROUND restores these women to their rightful place as technological revolutionaries. As the tech world continues to struggle with gender imbalance and its far-reaching consequences, the story of the ENIAC Programmers' groundbreaking work is more urgently necessary than ever before, and PROVING GROUND is the celebration they deserve." -- From publisher's website. 521 $a Adult. 650 0 $a Women computer programmers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Computer programmers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a ENIAC (Computer) 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bennett, Erin. $e narrator. 710 2 $a Playaway Digital Audio, $e publisher. 710 2 $a Findaway World, LLC, $e publisher. 941 $a 1 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012616.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E11E15D268C411EE82CCA71150ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IM9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search