In the 1940s, the U.S. Army funded the development of the world’s first all-electronic general purpose computer known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, or simply ENIAC, which ...

When you think back to the moon landing you think of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But, like they say, behind every great man is a great woman. Meet Margaret Hamilton, the woman behind the ...

But, in fact, many of the first computer programmers and coders were women, explains Nathan Ensmenger, a professor and expert on the history of computing at Indiana University and author of The ...

Software Programmers Lag Behind Hardware Developments. ByTom Groenfeldt, ... A job with 1,000 steps that may have taken an hour on an older computer might get done in 30 minutes on a newer one.

Computer Programmer Takes On the World's Despots. Published Aug 06, 2010 at 3:00 PM EDT Updated Aug 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM EDT. Austin Heap in San Francisco in June. ...

Answer: Six women — Kathleen McNulty, Frances Bilas, Betty Jean Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, Elizabeth Snyder and Marlyn Wescoff.

Whereas software developers are the “creative minds” behind computer programs and applications, computer programmers help turn the programs designed by software developers into working code ...

While speaking to The Paley Center for Media, "Big Bang Theory" co-creator Chuck Lorre revealed that he and his colleagues originally planned on making the nerdy characters computer programmers ...