Died 2012-07-18.
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Frances Spence
Frances V. Spence was an American physicist and computer scientist. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC. She is considered one of the first computer programmers in history.
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science · American physicist and computer scientist · mathematician · engineer · programmer · computer scientist · physicist · also Frances Spence, Frances V. Bilas, Frances Veronika Spence, Frances Bilas Spence, Spence
Born 2 March 1922 · Died 18 July 2012 · Q51769
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2012· 2 entries
And is buried at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, Nassau County, New York, USA
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2010· 1 entry
A documentary called, "Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII" was released
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Women in Technology Hall of Fame (1997).
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Spence was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, along with the other original ENIAC programmers
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1973· 1 entry
Published “Job Market Signaling” in The Quarterly Journal of Economics — cited 12,335 times.
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1946· 1 entry
The US Army failed to mention the names of the female programmers who had programmed the machine to run such sophisticated calculations
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-03-02.
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