Excerpted from the book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman. Copyright © 2022 by ...

Pennovation Works convenes inventors, researchers and biz founders across 23 acres of office, lab and production space. That entrepreneurial ecosystem created by the University of Pennsylvania is next ...

During WWII, a top-secret project to build the first programmable digital computer was underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army was looking for a faster way to run complicated ...

Excerpted from Beyond Eureka! The Rocky Roads to Innovating by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, with a foreword by Guy Kawasaki (Georgetown University Press). Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace (1815–52), ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Kathy Kleiman, the author of Proving Ground and an expert on internet governance at American University College of Law, talked about an intriguing ...

Army researchers officially welcomed five new supercomputers with a ribbon cutting and naming ceremony Sept. 28, 2023, at the Mallette Training Center. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development ...

User-Created Clip by zlowe August 16, 2022 2022-07-31T20:02:36-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1ce/1660668268.jpgKathy Kleiman, the author of Proving Ground and ...

In 1946 a team of six young women mathematicians made computer science history by programming the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It’s called ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator ...

Frances Bilas and Elizabeth Jennings in front of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (known as the ENIAC). ENIAC was developed at Penn's Moore School 1943-1945 ...

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 ...

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 ...