My name's Megan, originally from Minnesota but living in the UK which is now home. Always something in my mind and will post about it here. Hope you have a wonderful day!
An advanced computer-aided design program, called AD2000, available from Control Data Corp., helps to automate the industrial design and drafting process. It was used to create this automotive component model displayed on a computer graphics terminal (1978).
New! Essay Review of Joshua DÁVILA (aka The Blockchain Socialist) new book
Blockchain Radicals, & launch to further discussion of blockchain left, higher ed. etc. In my Blockchain and Society
Two of the Women Who Programmed the ENIAC, Penn, 1946.
Iconic photograph of Betty Jean Jennings (left) at edge of photo inserts a deck of cards containing initial data on which the ENIAC will operate, while Frances Bilas (right) removes a set of cards representing the result of the proceeding computation.
CBI Image o' Day. A 1969 note from Grace Hopper to Jack Jones, US Air Force on their CODASYL work & COBOL’s creation by her, Jean Sammet, Jones, +others. Hopper is suggesting important contributors to CODASYL who were at the '59 demo, to invite for the '69 COBOL 10th Anniversary Celebration including Alan Taylor who had become Editor of then new magazine Computerworld.
CBI Image of the Day (from the vast CBI Historical Archives). Jean Hall and ADVIDAC
CBI Image of the day: Jean Hall at the Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer (AVIDAC) console, showing the Ferranti photoelectric paper tape reader and the punch output bin, ca mid 1950s.
CBI Image of the Day. Mathematician & pioneering programmer Ida Rhodes in 1959, at NBS (there from 1940 to' 71). Early '50s, she co-designed C-10 language w/ Betty Holberton for the UNIVAC & led in computer Russian language translation.
CBI holds the Frances E. Holberton (Betty Holberton) Papers, one of our standout collections on women in computing/software.