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Jean Bartik
Jean Bartik was an American computer programmer who was one of the original six programmers of the ENIAC computer.
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science · American computer programmer (1924–2011) · programmer · mathematician · computer scientist · technical writer · also Jean Bartik, Betty Jean Jennings, Jean Jennings Bartik, Bartik
Born 27 December 1924 · Died 23 March 2011 · Q11428
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2013· 1 entry
By Truman State Press to positive reviews
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2011· 5 entries
Gizmodo: Jean Bartik, Pioneer Computer Programmer
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Computerworld: Jean Bartik, last of the original ENIAC programmers, 86
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Died 2011-03-23.
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With the help of long-time colleagues, Dr
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From congestive heart failure complications
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2010· 1 entry
A documentary Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII was released
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (2008).
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Computerworld: Unsung innovators: Jean Bartik, ENIAC programmer
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Women in Technology Hall of Fame (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Once the importance of their role in the development of computing was re-discovered, Bartik along with Betty Holberton and Bartik's other friend of over 60 years Kathleen Antonelli (ENIAC programmer and wife of ENIAC co-
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1986· 2 entries
When her final employer, Data Decisions (a publication of Ziff-Davis), was sold; Bartik spent the following 25 years as a real estate agent
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Kleiman first met and identified the women who worked with the ENIAC
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1967· 3 entries
And making the decision to divorce her husband, Bartik joined the Auerbach Corporation writing and editing technical reports on minicomputers
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And was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Northwest Missouri State University in 2002
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Studied at University of Pennsylvania, master's degree (1967).
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1954· 1 entry
“The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society”
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1945· 2 entries
Studied at Northwest Missouri State University (1941–1945).
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The United States Army was recruiting mathematicians from universities to aid in the war effort; despite a warning by her adviser that she would be "a cog in a wheel" with the Army, and encouragement to become a mathemat
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-12-27.
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