The Women Behind ENIAC

The Women Behind ENIAC

Jean Jennings (left) and Frances Bilas, two of the ENIAC programmers, are preparing the computer for Demonstration Day in February 1946. University Archives and Records Center/University of Pennsylvania If you looked at the pictures of those working on the first programmable, general-purpose all-electronic computer, you would assume that J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly were the only ones who had a hand in its development. Invented in 1945, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was built to improve the accuracy of U....

Published in spectrum.ieee.org · by Joanna Goodrich · 8 min read · August 30, 2023