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Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86


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Jean Jennings Bartik

Jean Bartik with part of the ENIAC computer.

Credit: Northwest Missouri State University and the Jean Jennings Bartik Computing Museum

Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first computer programmers and a pioneering forerunner in a technology that came to be known as software, died on March 23 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She was 86. Bartik discussed her work on ENIAC in an interview that is part of the Smithsonian's Computer Oral History Collection.

From The New York Times
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