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
Published
Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2013]
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
Summary
"In the only autobiography by any of the six original ENIAC programmers, Bartik tells her story, exposing myths about the computer's origin and properly crediting those behind the computing innovations that shape our daily lives."--Jacket
