Jean Bartik Pioneer Computer Programmer Passes Away

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Bartik worked on the UNIVAC, an early commercial computer, throughout the rest of the decade, leaving the industry in 1951 and returning to work as a programmer from 1967 into the mid-80s, when she was laid off. She worked as a real estate agent for the next 25 years, unable to find work in programming, though in recent years she and her team have rightfully been recognized as pioneers by the computer science community. The ENIAC represented an unparalleled jump computational power---one that no breakthrough has matched since. Jean Bartik and the rest of the ENIAC women were instrumental in...

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