Kathy Kleiman joins the podcast to discuss her recent book, Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer. Kathy and Gus start their conversation with background on the ENIAC computer itself – how it was funded, what its purpose was, and how it worked. Kleiman then explains the extraordinary story of the six women who were hired to program the ENIAC.

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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer | Kathy Kleiman

ENIAC Programmers Project