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What an amazing night! Kathy Kleimer spoke about the ENIAC 6, six women who programed the world’s first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer. She spent decades interviewing four of the six technological revolutionaries and compiled their stories into the book ‘Proving Ground,’ which she signed last night at Havre de Grace High School.
Was this recorded? I just saw your post. Sorry I missed it.
Harford County has designated the 176-year-old Kurtz Mansion in Jarrettsville for protection as a County Historic Landmark, at the request of its owner.
After unanimous approval by the Harford County Historic Preservation Commission in July, the designation was unanimously approved by the Harford County Council on September 20.
Read more here: www.harfordcountymd.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2127
About time the county government decided to start saving our historic homes and buildings before they got rid of all our history like in town
Free in person event, November 30th
After World War II, engineers and programmers rushed to make sure that the United States stayed ahead of the world in top-secret research into computing and ballistics. Officials at Aberdeen Proving Ground, located in Harford County, assigned six women to program the world’s first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer – known as the ENIAC — though no instruction codes or programming languages existed.
The roots of ENIAC are in much of every IT process used in today’s business and personal computing. However, the immeasurable contributions of these women programmers were never told – until now.
Over the course of a decade, author Kathy Kleiman recorded extensive interviews with four of the original six ENIAC programmers about their pioneering work. Proving Ground restores these women to their rightful place as technological revolutionaries.
Join the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, the Historical Society of Harford County and Discovery Center at Water’s Edge as we add “HERStory to history to tell OURstory” and welcome Kathy Kleiman to a free community forum to discuss Proving Ground.
Arrive early at 5:30 pm and meet the author. Get your book signed before or after the 6:30 pm presentation. The program is free, but please register in advance
www.harfordhistory.org/event/proving-ground-lecture-and-book-signing-featuring-author-kathy-kleiman/
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