10/03/2020
Seventy years ago, computers as big as swimming pools were programmed by country girls, the world’s first fully electronic, vacuum-tube-based universal computing machine: ENIAC, was presented to the world public in 1946. Six young women, mathematic students from the rural Midwest of the USA, had spent three years inventing a method of programming computers. At that point, the women programmers were never introduced; they remained invisible. After 1948, their pioneering work was forgotten for decades.