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.

Publication Info.	Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2013]
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Description	1 online resource (xxiii, 230 pages :) : illustrations
Bibliography	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Bartik, Jean.
	Bartik, Jean. (OCoLC)fst00421695
	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.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
	COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy.
	COMPUTERS -- Computer Science.
	COMPUTERS -- Data Processing.
	COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General.
	COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
	COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory.
	COMPUTERS -- Reference.
	Computer industry. (OCoLC)fst00872154
	Computer scientists. (OCoLC)fst00872482
	ENIAC (Computer) (OCoLC)fst00900462
	Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) (OCoLC)fst01741181
	Sex discrimination against women. (OCoLC)fst01114376
	Women computer programmers. (OCoLC)fst01177520
	Women computer scientists. (OCoLC)fst01177521
	Women in science. (OCoLC)fst01177977
	Women inventors. (OCoLC)fst01178065
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Rickman, Jon T.
	Todd, Kim D.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781612480862 1612480861 (DLC) 2013031857
ISBN	161248087X (electronic bk.)
	9781612480879 (electronic bk.)

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