Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World
by
Jean Jennings Bartik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In early 1945, the United States military was recruiting female mathematicians for a top-secret project to help win World War II. Betty Jean Jennings (Bartik), a twenty-year-old college graduate from rural northwest Missouri, wanted an adventure, so she applied for the job. She was hired as a “computer”...