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ENIAC "girls"

I know you all know about Admiral "Amazing" Grace Hopper (you are after all FairerScience readers), but do you know about the ENIAC "girls"? ENIAC is the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer and the "girls" were the women who programmed her during World War II. I first learned of them on a visit to the, sadly closed, Computer Museum in Boston.

But you can find out about them and the other World War II female computers with this new documentary:.
e "Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II." you can get ifrom Netflix or Amazon. Here's a clip.

Thanks to CNN for their story about these women.