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Author:

Bartik, Jean.

Title:

Pioneer programmer : Jean Jennings Bartik and the computer that changed the world / Jean Jennings Bartik ; autobiography edited by John T. Rickman and Kim D. Todd.

Publisher:

Truman State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxiii, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Subject:

Bartik, Jean.
Women computer scientists--United States--Biography.
Computer scientists--United States--Biography.
Women computer programmers--United States--Biography.
Women inventors--United States--Biography.
ENIAC (Computer)--History.
Computer industry--United States--History--20th century.
Women in science--United States--History--20th century.
Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)--United States--History--20th century.
Sex discrimination against women--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Rickman, Jon T.
Todd, Kim D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: The start of something big -- The originators, the women, and the ENIAC -- My story : how it all began -- Human "computer" to ENIAC programmer -- Apricot brandy and nighttime logic -- Surrounded by brilliance -- Moving on, and the glass ceiling -- The trial to overturn the ENIAC patent -- The ENIAC women in the spotlight -- Epilogue: Looking back -- Afterword / by Kim D. Todd.

ISBN:

1612480861 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9781612480862 (paperback : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)854828754

LCCN:

2013031857

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)