1947 ENIAC - Co-lead programmer

Bartik and other human computers had been manually calculating trajectories for the army at the start of World War II. When the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was developed, these calculations could be done by the new electronic computer. Bartik applied to become part of the project and was selected to be one of its first programmers along with five other women (Betty Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff, Kathleen McNulty, Ruth Teitelbaum, and Frances Spence). They were known as the "Sensational Six." While the six women worked on ENIAC, they developed subroutines, nesting, and other fundamental programming techniques, and arguably invented the discipline of programming digital computers.

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Computer Science - Eniac

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yes

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