Betty Holberton (March 7 1917 - December 8 2001) was one of the original ENIAC crew. She was born Frances Elizabeth Snyder in Philadelphia in 1917. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in English and journalism, although she had excelled in mathematics during high school. Wikipedia
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Frances Betty Snyder Holberton, a pioneer in programming languages and other aspects of computing, died Dec. 8 in Rockville, Md. She was 84. www.gcn.com/print/21_1/17702-1.html
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Betty Holberton was a computing pioneer who was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC 50 years ago. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was developed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylva www.uri.edu/personal/csul7234/bettyholberton1.html
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When men were pressed into military service at the beginning of World War II , the Army recruited female mathematicians - Holberton among them - to compute ballistics trajectories. The women were called "computers" and classified as sub-professionals as everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1215819
