Adele Goldstine
American computer programmer (1920–1964) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adele Goldstine (née Katz; December 21, 1920 – November 1964) was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her work programming the computer, she was also an instrumental player in converting the ENIAC from a computer that needed to be reprogrammed each time it was used to one that was able to perform a set of fifty stored instructions.[1]
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Born | Adele Katz (1920-12-21)December 21, 1920 New York City, U.S. |
Died | November 1964(1964-11-00) (aged 43) |
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Known for | First manual on electronic digital computer |
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Children | 2 |
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Fields | Computer Programming and Mathematics |
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