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Kathleen Rita Antonelli, known as Kay McNulty, was an Irish computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers. The other five ENIAC programmers were Betty Holberton, Ruth Teitelbaum, Frances Spence, Marlyn Meltzer, and Jean Bartik.
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science · Irish–American computer programmer (1921–2006) · programmer · mathematician · computer scientist · also Kathleen Antonelli, Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Kay Antonelli, Kathleen Rita Antonelli, Kay Mauchly Antonelli, Antonelli
Born 12 February 1921 · Died 20 April 2006 · Q17520
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The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) at the National University of Ireland, Galway, named its new Waterford-based primary supercomputer, which is to serve as Ireland's national supercomputer for academic resea
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
A documentary called, "Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII" was released
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Died 2006-04-20.
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Awarded Women in Technology Hall of Fame (1997).
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Along with the other original ENIAC programmers, and she accepted the induction of John Mauchly into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, in 2002
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Antonelli was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, along with the five other ENIAC programmers, for their contributions on programming ballistics trajectories
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Antonelli said that John Mauchly pronounced the name of the computer "EN-ee-ack", unlike the common pronunciation at the time of "EEN-ee-ack"
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Following several bouts of illness and recoveries
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Against the wishes of her parents and she resigned her post at Aberdeen
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Studied at Chestnut Hill College (1938–1942).
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Studied at J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School (1934–1938).
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Born 1921-02-12.
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