Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings in rural Missouri in 1924 and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, always dreamed of getting out of the Midwest and having a real adventure in the world. She lived ...

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Jean Bartik, the last of the original ENIAC programmers, died this morning. She was 86. She was born Betty Jean Jennings, on Dec. 27, 1924 and raised on a Missouri farm. Her first job was as a human ...

The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World's First Supercomputer,” by Kathy Kleiman (Grand Central Publishing) When the world’s first general-purpose, ...

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This story is part of our series, The Changing Lives of Women. Sarah Allen has been the only woman on a team of computer programmers a few times in the more than two decades she has worked in the ...

This cover image released by Grand Central Publishing shows "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer" by Kathy Kleiman. (Grand Central ...