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 was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World's First Supercomputer,” by Kathy Kleiman (Grand Central Publishing) When the world’s first general-purpose, ...

Women's Royal Naval Service members operate the Colossus Mark 2 machine, which went into operation just before D-Day and provided critical codebreaking for the invasion's success. Photo: National ...

About two dozen women sat around tables at downtown coworking space OpenWorks for Greenville's inaugural Women Who Code meeting earlier this month. The group is the latest in a network of more than 60 ...

This story is part of our series, The Changing Lives of Women. Sarah Allen has been the only woman on a team of computer programmers a few times in the more than two decades she has worked in the ...

Author and former Salon columnist Ellen Ullman wrote her first computer programs in 1978 and spent 20 years as a programmer and software engineer. While Silicon Valley is not exactly known for being a ...

DCFemTech, the coalition group of women-in-tech organizations, announced the winners of their second annual “Powerful Women Programmers” and “Powerful Women Designers” awards on Wednesday. The awards ...

This cover image released by Grand Central Publishing shows "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer" by Kathy Kleiman. (Grand Central ...

PROVING GROUND: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing. 320 pages. $30. When the world’s first general-purpose, ...